Daughters of the stone
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780312539269
Subjects: Plantation life -- Fiction; Women -- Family relationships -- Fiction; Matriarchy -- Fiction; Puerto Rico -- History -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A tale spanning five generations of a family of African-Puerto Rican women finds mute seamstress Fela working in colonial Puerto Rico and drawing on her tribal beliefs to enable the birth of a daughter who becomes a powerful curandera.