Prologue: Sin padre -- México lindo y querido = Dearest and beloved Mexico -- A donde iran los muertos? Quién sabe a donde iran = Where will the dead go? Who knows where they will go -- Buscando abrigo y no lo encontraran = Searching for shelter they will never find -- Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido = So far from the land that gave me birth -- She kept her head in a jar by the door = Mantuvo su cabeza en el jarrón junto a la puerta -- Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons, Bone by Bone -- Songs Quoted in Text
Summary
Mexican American author Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father
Notes
"First edition published 2002."
English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 18, 2022)