Title: Secrets of the Casa Rosada
Description: Sixteen-year-old Martha has to adjust to a new life with her maternal grandmother, a respected curandera--or healer--in Laredo, Texas, after her reliably unreliable mother dumps her at the pink house filled with tokens of her mom's childhood.
Subjects: Blessing and cursing, Secrets, Healers, Family life, Grandmothers, Fiction, Mexican Americans, History
Places: Texas
Time periods: 20th century