The Volcano Daughters: A Novel

A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories

“Epic…[Balibrera] is a gifted new storyteller with a nose for history and a prodigious imagination.” —The New York Times

El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to ...