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From the much loved New York Times best-selling author of The Dialect of Flowers comes her much-anticipated new novel about young love, hard choices, and expectation against all probabilities. For 14 years Letty Espinosa spent some time working three jobs around SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to pay the bills while her mother elevated her children - Alex, now 15, and Luna, six - in their little apartment on the neglected spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and be a mother for the very first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses her grandparents, and Alex, who is falling deeply in love with a classmate, is unwilling to provide his mother an opportunity. Letty comes up with a plan to help the family get away from the dangerous area and heartbreaking injustice which may have designated their lives, but one wrong move could jeopardize everything she's proved helpful for and her family's delicate hopes for future years. Vanessa Diffenbaugh blends beautiful prose with convincing styles of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American dream in a powerful and prescient tale about family.
