Las Madres: A novel BOTY_2025 and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listened

and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup

" ― Booklist (starred review)

and beauty of fungi to life as never before

The air is thick with swirling

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Las Madres: A novel BOTY_2025 and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listenedFrom the award winning, best selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together They refer to themselves as las Madres, a close knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975