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by Gina María Balibrera
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, daughter of a campesina from the coffee fields of Izalco, lives on the slopes of the volcano until she is summoned to the capital by the dictator who governs tides and volcanoes alike. Balibrera's novel traces women's lives under dictatorship, myth, and the land's own terrible power.
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