she can do it all.” -Lupita Reads “Woman of Light is an intimate and intensely moving story of a Latinx and Indigenous family in the American West. “A classic legendary Latinx story and a punch that says can square up with any contemporary writer. one of the most potent voices in contemporary Latino and Native American literature.” -BeLatina There are no other words to describe Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Woman of Light, a brilliant conflagration of a story that opens the eyes and inflames the heart.” - Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire series “An unparalleled generational saga. An absolutely glorious novel.” - Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here “This is a rare and wondrous kind of novel that assembles the universe from mere words, whose unforgettable characters haunt like long shadows in the southwestern light.” - Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Lake Success “Pure, simple, and luminescent. “A transporting story of the importance of family history told in a luminescent style.” - Good Housekeeping “This indelible novel shines its big light on the Lopez family so brightly that I could draw a map of their breath. When I turned the last page, I was still in that gray January, but somehow the world felt a little bigger, and a little more hopeful.” -Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You “Fajardo-Anstine’s storytelling is absolutely engrossing.” - Shondaland Praise for Woman of Light: “Woman of Light’s scope called Willa Cather to mind-but Fajardo-Anstine shines a spotlight on characters whose stories often fall into the shadows. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished and how they were threatened. As Luz navigates 1930’s Denver on her own, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory.

“An absolutely glorious novel.” -Emma Straub A Good Morning America BuzzPick A Phenomenal Book Club Pick A Roxane Gay Book Club Pick A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob.

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