A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wont want to hang up on.
Brilliant . . . Melissa Mogollon did not come to play.Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age
Yes, hi, Mari. Its me. Im over my tantrum now and calling you back . . . But firstyou have to promise that you wont tell Mom or Abue any of this. Okay? Theyll set the house on fire if they find out . . .
Structured as a series of one-sided phone calls from our spunky, sarcastic narrator, Luciana, to her older sister, Mari, this wildly inventive debut jump-starts your heart in the same way it piques your ear (Xochitl Gonzalez). As the baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana is usually relegated to the sidelines. But now she finds herself as the only voice of reason in the face of an...