International Latino Book Award Gold Medal Winner Winner of the Friends of American Writers Literature Award For fans of Rebecca Serle and Elizabeth Acevedo, a lyrical, poignant, and powerful (Yamile Saied Mndez, award-winning author of All Roads Lead to Rome) work of magical realism about a womans journey to Colombia to discover her roots and what it means to carry our ancestors with us.Dolores Moores dead relatives refuse to stay quiet. They trail after her like a Greek chorus with no respect for personal boundaries, filling her crumbling Victorian with unsolicited advice, family gossip, and increasingly urgent opinions about her return to Colombiathe birthplace she barely remembers. Dorrie would rather stay in Minneapolis, where the problems are manageable: an ex she hasnt forgotten, a cartography career thats evaporated overnight, a creaky inherited house, and two needy orange cats. But when a cryptic hand-drawn map surfaces and an old flame offers to watch the house, the voices leave her no choice. So begins a journey to Colombia guided by photographs of her mother, half-remembered stories about her father, and a little bit of magic as Dorrie searches for the truth about her family origins, her ancestral roots, and whats been calling her to her rightful place.
