This book... I don't know if I've ever seen a better representation of family, and the roles we all play. Maybe it's because I come from a female dominated family with a grandma full of stories and secrets, a family whose cousins feel like siblings, but this book resonated with me in a way I was not prepared for. Beautiful, heartbreaking, and affirming. I felt adrift, unsettled, and then finally rooted. I felt like I'd come home by that last page, like I'd put down roots of my own right along with Orquídea.

Whatever you think this book is, I promise you it isn't. It's gorgeous and surprising and so much better than you imagined.