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Under the Mesquite

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Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant circle of relatives, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities all the way through her mother’s battle with cancer on this young adult novel in verse.

When Lupita learns Mami has cancer, she is terrified by the potential for losing her mother, the anchor of her close-knit circle of relatives. , being a high school student, starring in a play, and dealing with friends who don’t all the time keep in mind, turn into less important than doing no matter what she can to save Mami’s life.

While her father cares for Mami at an out-of-town clinic, Lupita takes charge of her seven younger siblings. As Lupita struggles to keep the circle of relatives afloat, she takes refuge in the shade of a mesquite tree, where she escapes the chaos at home to write. Forced to face her limitations in the course of overwhelming changes and losses, Lupita rediscovers her voice and finds healing in the power of words.

Told with honest emotion in evocative free verse, Lupita’s journey toward hope is captured in moments that are alternately warm and poignant. Under the Mesquite is an empowering story about testing circle of relatives bonds and the strength of a young woman navigating pain and hardship with surprising resilience.

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