Rosa Lilia's life has always been marked by death. When she stops breathing at four days old, her mother kneels and begs Christ to bring her daughter back to life. Somehow her prayers are answered, but Rosa Lilia's mother is not destined to be her nurturer. When Rosa Lilia is four, her mother leaves her with her grandparents with the hope she will have a better life. Unfortunately, she could not be more wrong.
As Rosa Lilia embarks on a complicated coming-of-age journey growing up in Ario de Rosales, Mexico, she must endure her uncle's bouts of alcoholic craziness, her mother's...
Rosa Lilia's life has always been marked by death. When she stops breathing at four days old, her mother kneels and begs Christ to bring her daught...
