Luz is blatantly refused the opportunity to even apply for one job in a white community. There is an openly hostile atmosphere of prejudice and discrimination the family has to suffer with. Luz lives with their aunt Maria Josie, a remarkably strong woman who never hesitates to confront head-on the harsh realities life deals to her family. She and her cousin Lizette work taking in laundry to make ends meet, although they are looking for more substantial income. Luz “Little Light” Lopez is Pidre’s descendent, a young tea leaf reader and clairvoyant in Denver in 1933. We shift back and forth in time, but the novel’s core revolves around events sixty years later. These are the opening pages of a magical journey through generations of an Indigenous Chicano family. It is nighttime in the American Southwest, the Lost Territory in 1868, and “.the sky was so filled with stars it seemed they hummed.” A baby, Pidre, is abandoned in a Moses-like passage and is rescued and raised by Desiderya Lopez, the Sleepy Prophet of the tiny pueblo, Pardona. “Woman of Light” starts off like a dream, an ancient fable.
Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love, filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz. Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.
She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished and how they were threatened. As Luz navigates 1930's Denver on her own, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. 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. "There is one every generation-a seer who keeps the stories." A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina
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