The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore

For fans of Rebecca Serle and Elizabeth Acevedo,a magically insightful novel about a woman’s journey to discover her roots and what it means to carry our ancestors with us. In the span of a yearDolores Moore has become a thirty-five-year-old orphan. After the funeral of the last living member of her familyDorrie has never felt more lost and alone. That isexcept for a Greek chorus of deceased relatives whose voices follow her around giving unsolicited advice and opinions. And theyΓÇÖre only amplifying DorrieΓÇÖs doubts about keeping the deathbed promise she made to return to her birthplace in Colombia. Fresh off a breakup with her long-term boyfriendlaid off from her job as a cartographerand facing a daunting inheritance of her mothersΓÇÖ aging Minneapolis Victorian and two orange tabbieshow can she possibly leave the country now? But when an old flame offers to housesitthe chorus agrees that thereΓÇÖs no room for excuses. Armed with only a scrap of a handdrawn mapDorrie sets off to find out whereΓÇöand whoΓÇöshe came from.