The ladies of Managua

Description:

"When Maria Vazquez returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past--and a secret of her own. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother Ninexin, once a storied revolutionary, now a tireless government employee. Between Maria and Ninexin lies a chasm created by the death of Maria's father, who was killed during the revolution when Maria was an infant, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother Isabela as Ninexin worked to build the new Nicaragua"--

subjects: Family secrets,  Fiction,  FICTION / Contemporary Women,  Conflict of generations,  FICTION / Sagas,  Mothers and daughters,  Fiction, family life,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Nicaragua, fiction,  FICTION,  Sagas,  Contemporary Women

Places: Managua,  New Orleans,  Managua (Nicaragua),  Nicaragua,  New Orleans (La.),  Louisiana