Candelaria Audiobook

Your granddaughters are lost Candelaria Bianca the brainy archaeologist had to forfeit her lifes work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her Paola missing for over a decade resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe And Candy the youngest is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man shes not even sure ever existed None of this concerns you of course until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffetfor a reason you still cannot disclosebattling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world

Author of Dreaming of You Melissa LozadaOliva delivers an unsettling raucous debut novel written with tongueincheek humor and sharp cultural criticism that unearths one troubled familys legacy feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost

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