Book Excerpt:
"El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. She meets Consuelo, the sister she never knew, who was stolen from their home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel El Gran Alcan regime, unwillingly helping his reign of terror until genocide strikes the community from which they hail. Each believing the other to be dead, they escape, fleeing across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate ultimately brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways…
Endlessly surprising, vividly imaginative, and bursting with lush life, The Volcano Daughters charts a new history and mythology of El Salvador, fiercely bringing forth voices calling out for generations."Title: The Volcano Daughters
Author: Gina Maria Balibrera
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:
"The Volcano Daughters" by Gina Maria Balibrera
My Perception:
'The Volcano Daughter' was a fascinating historical and magical realism fiction about two El Salvador sisters [Consuelo & Graciela]. This heartbreaking story has a little bit of everything: revolution, corruption, dictatorship, terror, genocide, violence, grief, trauma, rawness, challenging reading, and then some joy and hope. I enjoyed seeing how the author delivered the different forms of history the vivid characters encountered, making the story compelling and exciting. The story was a little slow at times, but it made up its time by the time it finally was completed, explaining it all about the two sisters in the end.
Ultimately, one will get one unique story when it's all said and done.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an arc in exchange for my honest opinion.
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