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Malas / Marcela Fuentes.

by Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer).

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Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.

Mexican Americans -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Revenge -- Fiction.

Texas -- Fiction.

9780593655788 (hc.)

"A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"-- provided by publisher.

"In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming quinceañera. When her beloved grandmother passes away, Lulu finds herself drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and who lives alone and shunned on the edge of town. Their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family's past. As the quinceañera looms--and we move between these two strong, irascible female voices--one woman must make peace with the past, and one girl pushes to embrace her future." -- provided by publisher.

Bildungsromans.

Domestic fiction.

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