![]() ![]() The racism that Luz’s family faces as they are Indigenous and Chicano is a huge part of the novel. Through her and her grandmother’s timelines, we get to know about gentrification, power of media, community, poverty, misogyny, and family. ![]() Luz then starts to work as a lawyer’s assistant. Diego is run out of the town by the family whose daughter he fell in love with and who becomes pregnant. Diego is a snake charmer and does lowly jobs, while Luz has a gift for reading tea leaves and works as a laundress with Lizzette. The other timeline features Luz’s grandmother, Simodecea in the late 1800s, who was a sharp shooter and who was also a part of a travelling circus. Similarly, Woman of Light has two timelines, one focusing on 1930s Denver featuring Luz “Little Light” Lopez her brother, Diego her cousin, Lizzette, and her gay aunt, Maria Josie. Schwab and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner are two recent examples. There are novels with two timelines-one historical and one contemporary – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. ![]() This multigenerational novel was beautiful and magical. FBC has a podcast episode on the novel’s themes and the quotations that stood out to them. Woman of Lightis Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s first novel, after her collection of her debut collection of short stories, Sabrina and Corina. ![]()
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