Julia Alvarez\'s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents meets Cormac McCarthy\'s The Road A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive from the author of Dreaming of You , Melissa Lozada-Oliva.
Told with tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism, Candelaria is an unsettling, raucous debut novel that unearths one troubled family\'s legacy, feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost..
Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet--for a reason you still cannot disclose--battling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world.
None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston.
And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she\'s not even sure ever existed.
Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe.
Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life\'s work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her.
Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria.
Julia Alvarez\'s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents meets Cormac McCarthy\'s The Road A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive from the author of Dreaming of You , Melissa Lozada-Oliva
