Title: Daughters of the stone
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Women, Matriarchy, Family relationships, Plantation life, History, Fiction, historical, general, Puerto rico, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
LC classification: PS3612.L36 D38 2009