Rosebud Population 7

In this exceptional coming of age novel, Gonzales-Berry draws on personal memory to tell the story of northeastern New Mexico and her family's place within i. As a young girl, the protagonist, Viola, makes the following promise: I would be the keeper of the journeys and the stories. I would keep them in my heart, and someday I would put them down on paper." And that is exactly what she does. She weaver the stories of her ancestors, her parents and her sisters intro a narrative that shows us another way of understanding who Nuevomexicano families are and where we come from.