GILBERT HERNANDEZ
In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in California after leaving Palomar in Luba and Her Family. Luba and her cousin Ofelias relationship has always been fraught, but when Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, past memories, secrets, resentments, and pain resurface. Meanwhile, Lubas children?genius Socorro, recently out-and-proud Doralis, and prickly Maricela?show that a talent for trouble may be hereditary. Lubas sisters, Fritz and Petra, swap lovers (as usual), but . . . are Fritz and family friend Pipo sittin in a tree? These vividly drawn characters are charged with Hernandezs trademark complexity; they live, love, age, fight? and die?in this sweeping, multi-generational saga.
