01635cam a2200301 4500 1171817919 TxAuBib 20240319120000.0 240307t20242023||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9798885797269 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib Santiago, Esmeralda. Las madres [Large Type Book] : a novel / Esmeralda Santiago. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich] : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2024. ©2023. 513 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices "They call themselves 'las madres and las nenas,' five women who have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. In 1975, Shirley and Ada meet fifteen-year-old Luz whose memory was wiped clean in a car accident. In 2017, in the Bronx, Luz's daughter, Marysol, longs to know more about her amnesiac mother. Along with Graciela, Ada and Shirley's daughter, the women travel to Puerto Rico hoping to learn more about Luz's early life. They're stranded when hurricane Maria devastates the island, and in its aftermath a long-buried secret blows their lives wide open"--From the publisher's web site. 20240319. Women Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Brain damage Fiction. Memory Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices. RV8