The Volcano Daughters

A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends,who are not yet done telling their stories “A gripping and spellbinding novel about a sisterhood ripped apart by violencenarrated by a ghostly chorus. An unforgettable debut.” —Brit Bennettauthor of The Vanishing Half El Salvador1923. Gracielaa young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous womenis summoned to the capitalwhere she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. There she meets Consuelothe sister she has never knownwho was stolen from their home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel El Gran Pendejo’s regimeunwillingly helping his reign of terroruntil genocide strikes the community from which they hail. Each believing the other to be deadthey escapefleeing across the globereinventing themselves until fate ultimately brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways… Endlessly surprisingvividly imaginativebursting with lush lifeThe Volcano Daughters charts a new history and mythology of El Salvadorfiercely bringing forth voices that have been calling out for generations.