Brother Sister Mother Explorer

<b>Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award</b><br> <br><b>A fableistic, "beautifully crafted, poetic" debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>).</b><br><br>In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother''s passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa''s own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be.<br><br>As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother''s ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina''s vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.