The harrowing story of a Latina single mother struggling between two cultures, who discovers the terrible secrets of her childhood, and the real reason her mother suddenly disappeared nineteen years earlier without a trace. Olivia Cervantes fights against the crushing effects of psychological shock, and ruthless social forces, to maintain her emotional sanity and to support her young daughter. But in the midst of her valiant efforts, she subsequently comes under a vicious and humiliating attack by the State, a defining ...
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The harrowing story of a Latina single mother struggling between two cultures, who discovers the terrible secrets of her childhood, and the real reason her mother suddenly disappeared nineteen years earlier without a trace. Olivia Cervantes fights against the crushing effects of psychological shock, and ruthless social forces, to maintain her emotional sanity and to support her young daughter. But in the midst of her valiant efforts, she subsequently comes under a vicious and humiliating attack by the State, a defining battle she must win at all costs and by any means, because losing is terrifyingly unthinkable, for it would signal the moral death of Olivia as a mother, as a woman, and as a sovereign human being.
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