Description: "In the span of a year, Dolores Moore has become a thirty-five-year-old orphan. After the funeral of the last living member of her family, Dorrie has never felt more lost and alone. That is, except for a Greek chorus of deceased relatives whose voices follow her around giving unsolicited advice and opinions. And they're only amplifying Dorrie's doubts about keeping the deathbed promise she made to return to her birthplace in Colombia. Fresh off a breakup with her long-term boyfriend, laid off from her job as a cartographer, and facing a daunting inheritance of her mothers' aging Minneapolis Victorian and two orange tabbies, how can she possibly leave the country now? But when an old flame offers to housesit, the chorus agrees that there's no room for excuses. Armed with only a scrap of a handdrawn map, Dorrie sets off to find out where--and who--she came from"--
Brief description: Anika Fajardo was born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota. She is the award-winning author of Magical Realism for Non-Believers, What If a Fish, Meet Me Halfway, and The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore. She lives with her family in Minneapolis. Find out more at AnikaFajardo.com.
Review Quotes: "Anika Fajardo's charming and poignant new book is a map of loss, motherhood, and magic that welcomes the reader home. There are tender revelations, vivid details and funny moments throughout. Truly, what a joy it was to spend time with "Dolores" and her cast of wise and delightful mothers in these pages!"----Chantel Acevedo, author of The Distant Marvels and The Living Infinite