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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) 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
“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky.”—Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You
A PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot
There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories.
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. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.
Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill this multigenerational western saga. Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love—filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz.
LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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A Worhty Read
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De: Khaled Hosseini
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London
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- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn't see it that way...until Charmian is pulled from the audience during a magic show by escape artist Harry Houdini, a man enmeshed in his own complicated marriage. Suddenly charmed, Charmian's eyes open to a world of possibilities.
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Who Knew...?
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The Dressmaker's Dowry
- A Novel
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For listeners of Lucinda Riley, Sarah Jio, or Susan Meissner, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco's gritty streets in 1876 and the other a young woman in the present day who must delve into the secrets of her husband's wealthy family only to discover that she and the missing dressmaker might be connected in unexpected ways.
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Even two good narrators can't redeem this
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De: Meredith Jaeger
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
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- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender.
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Beautiful and Haunting Fairytale
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
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Angel of Harlem
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- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
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Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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Really Enjoyed!
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De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
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Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
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Southern Gods
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Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music - broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio statio - is said to make living men insane and dead men rise. Disturbed and enraged by the bootleg recording the DJ plays for him, Ingram follows Hastur's trail into the strange, uncivilized backwoods of Arkansas, where he hears rumors the musician has sold his soul to the Devil.
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Big, Bold and Bright
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Twelve-year-old Ren doesn't know who his parents were. He doesn't know who left him at St. Anthony's orphanage, or how he lost his left hand when still an infant. He is resigned to life without a family to call his own and terrified of the future. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren's long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents is enough to persuade the monks at the orphanage to release the boy. But is Benjamin really who he says he is?
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Close But No Cigar?
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Jerusalem Maiden
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In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris - and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther views it as a warning from an angry God....
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No dreaming, No painting, No thinking . . .
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The Last Ballad
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Twelve times a week, 28-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. Two in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill's owners - the newly arrived Goldberg brothers - white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and other workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May's best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for 72 hours of work each week, it's the only opportunity she has.
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Dryer than a popcorn fart
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De: Wiley Cash
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The Rock Orchard
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"Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again." So begins Paula Wall's funny, poignant, and sexy novel, The Rock Orchard. Musette Belle could lay her hand on a baby's heart and see his life as if he'd already lived it. Even in death, she continues to shock the good citizens of Leaper's Fork, Tennessee, and her descendents are doing their best to carry on her legacy.
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Laugh Out Loud
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Grand Central
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On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through New York City's Grand Central Terminal, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, and past the information booth and its beckoning four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place where people come to say hello and good-bye. And each person has a story to tell.
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Grand Central: Memories
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De: Melanie Benjamin, y otros
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The year is 1921, and America is burning. A fire of vice and virtue rages on every shore, and Chicago is its beating heart. Nelly Sawyer is the daughter of the “wealthiest Negro in America”, whose affluence catapulted his family to the heights of Black society. After the unexpected death of her only brother, Nelly becomes the premier debutante overnight. But Nelly has aspirations beyond society influence and marriage.
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Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur.
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Cousins Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie are inseparable. They aren’t just family but best friends—sharing secrets, traditions, and a fierce love for their abuelita. But their idyllic childhood ends when Mari’s parents divorce, forcing her to move away. With Mari gone, the girls’ tight-knit bond unravels.
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- 07-13-22
So many metaphors!
This book was hard to follow as the author jumped around the generations. That, coupled with the huge amount of odd metaphors she used. I found myself being distracted from the story as I was trying to figure them all out??? This was not an easy listen! Frustrating actually.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-05-23
A novel that can’t quite decide what it is
I’m Chicana and love historical fiction, so I was excited to hear this inter generational saga of early Colorado told from the perspective of Mexican & Indigenous folks. Some of the descriptions are beautiful, and if you’re not aware that the West was “won” through the violence of white supremacy, you may need to read this novel just to learn that. My pleasure was interrupted at times by anachronisms (it wasn’t called “smog” in the 1930s) and by underdeveloped, inconsistent characters (including token butch lesbian, not handled well). Overall, I got the feeling that the author couldn’t decide whether to write magical realism, decolonial political realism, female-empowerment fiction, or a bodice-ripper—so the result is an odd mix of all of those. If that’s your pleasure, do enjoy: there are some good moments and it’s well read.
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- JRC 318
- 03-03-23
Interesting part of history
The last two and half hours of this book were certainly the best in my opinion. For the listeners, there are a few storylines and timelines and it can bounce quickly if you’re not paying close attention. It helped me to look at the chapter name as that often identified the year. Overall an interesting book. Could have honestly taken the last chapter or so and built the story from there. Perhaps there is or will be a part II? Do not expect full closure for the main characters, but you will get “some” closure. Narration was beautiful.
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- Marina Griffo
- 09-12-22
Sangre de Cristos and the Tewa language
One winter my husband and I drove to Colorado from Albuquerque and saw how the Sanger's got their name as they were covered with snow and the sun was setting and shining on them. Reading Woman of Light I imagine that the Lost Territory is there. As for Tewa, I have a passion for languages, especially the smaller threatened ones thus Tewa is another essential attraction of this tale. Kali Fajardo-Anstine weaves a brilliant tapestry with this book with her characters, multiple ethnicities and history: it is a damn fine tale: !muchas gracias!
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- Gary D Crane
- 11-21-22
Interesting Denver immigrant history
Interesting story of Hispanic families and the hardships they endured in the late 1800s, early 1909s in Colorado and primarily the Denver area. As a native of Denver, I wasn’t aware of the strong presence of the Klu Klux Klan. My parents lived in the area where Luz lived in the 1930s, but I don’t remember them sharing any stories. A little disappointed with the end of the story.
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- Carol Scardello
- 08-24-22
Great history of Colorado and are
Interesting family story in Denver and western US. Enjoyed the different timelines and cultures. Very entertaining.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-01-23
I love the book
I love the book, the people, and the story. I hate the KKK. I wish people weren’t hateful.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-29-23
Not What I was Expecting
I was expecting the more mystical aspects of the “Woman of Light” to take center stage. I kept waiting but it never did. Aside from my deflated expectations, the story was interesting enough. I listened to the end.
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- Cynthia R Phillips
- 10-02-23
Had potential
…some of the ‘voices’ by the narrator were annoyingly grating and baby-ish. The flipping back and forth in time was disorienting. The ending felt forced and dissatisfying.
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- Kristen Cannon
- 06-22-22
Historical Fiction that needs to be told
Let me first explains that 5* reviews, for me, are left to the classics. That being said, this book was very well written. Beautiful descriptors and a clear understanding of language. The beginning was a bit hard to follow, as you don’t understand the significance of the characters until later. The main story however, was captivating, however very hard to read at times, as the human capability for brutality and bigotry is heartbreaking. When the back story is married to the current story, it shows the roots, then blossoms. This is not a happily ever after story, but is is real in that there are choices made that forever change the course of our life. It doesn’t mean our life is over. The different path has purpose of its own.
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