It’s been about two weeks since I finished this book & I still remember the raw emotions it stirred up in me. Could Perla, the adopted grandmother have been trying to tell her something about her origins? or was it just superstitions passed down from her mother country? Could these people have answers to questions she hasn’t thought to ask? We follow Manu as she dares to uncover secrets and lay claim over her very existence. What at first seemed like just group of teens ends up looking a lot more like the Argentine Folklore passed down to her by Perla. Searching for answers with little to go on, she manages to stumble upon a group of teens off the side of the road. Manu’s entire life course is upended when her mother is detained by ICE & she finds herself on her own. Manu follows her mothers rules in order to keep from being detained & deported but she yearns for freedom and friends her age.
She remains indoors most of the time but when she does go out she wears shades to cover her unnaturally yellow as the sun eyes.
Manu’s mother gives her a sedative which puts her to sleep through the majority of her cycle. This story starts with Manu’s menstruation, a painful time for Manu directly correlated with the moon cycle. One of the superstitions Manu has always felt a connection with is that of the 7th consecutive sons & daughters born in Argentina being either a wolf or witch.
Perla has also shared folklore from their mother country of Argentina. For Manu this means homeschooling from Perla, sort of an adoptive grandmother who shares a lie for literature with Manu. Now she hides from ICE raids in the United States by blending in as best she can. Manu has been on the run from her father’s Argentine crime family since birth. Lobizona tells the story of Manuela Azu aka Manu as she lives a quiet sheltered life in Miami alongside her mother. I don’t fit into any of the groupings around me, and the things that make me different always seem to count against me”
🖤 ARC provided by author in exchange for an honest review🖤
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