María Amparo Escandón

Maria Amparo Escandon

With her favorite saint to guide her, Esperanza Diaz, a beautiful young widow, leaves her humble Mexican village on a search for her missing twelve-year-old daughter and learns the nature of sin and forgiveness

A Novel

Esperanza's Box of Saints

A model prisoner at the Mexicali Penal Institution for Women, Libertad Gonzlez leads the weekly Library Club, reading aloud from whatever books she can find, in the process revealing the story of her father, a ex-literature professor and fugitive from the Mexican government, his new life as a long haul trucker in the U.S., and and his relationship with his daughter on the road. Original. 50,000 first printing.

A Road Novel with Literary License

González and Daughter Trucking Co

FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in this fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1Los Angeles Times bestsellerEsperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters--Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers--are blindsided and left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way. With quick-wit and humor, Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.

L. A. Weather

Esperanza's Box of Saints is a magical, humorous, and passion-filled odyssey about a beautiful young widow's search for her missing child -- a mission that takes her from a humble Mexican village to the rowdy brothels of Tijuana and a rarely seen side of Los Angeles. Rescued from turmoil by her favorite saint, Esperanza embarks on a journey that tests her faith, teaches her the ways of the world, and transforms her from a fervently religious innocent to an independent, sexual, and passionately devout woman.

Maria Amparo Escandon

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