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Woman of Light

Cover of Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

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.

Author category: 
BIPOC Author
Female Author
Latinx Author
Native American Author
Date of publication: 
2022