Title: Esperanza's box of saints
Description: A Mexican village woman has a vision that her 12-year-old daughter did not die, as a hospital claims, but was sold into prostitution by a doctor. The search for the girl takes her to Los Angeles. A first novel.
Subjects: Death, Fiction, Picaresque literature, Apparitions, Mexican American women, Religious fiction, Mothers and daughters, Children, Mexican Americans, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological, Mexican americans, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, religious, Religious life