The Flower in the Skull
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192 pages · Released 1999 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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This multigenerational saga weaves together the stories of a 19th-century Opata Indian woman and her modern-day descendants, exploring themes of identity, heritage, and resilience. The narrative includes historical violence related to colonial conflict and some mature themes tied to displacement and loss, but these are handled thoughtfully rather than graphically. The book offers strong educational value about Indigenous and Mexican-American history while centering female perspectives and family bonds.
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Recounts the lives of a nineteenth-century Indian woman who flees the desert of New Mexico when Mexican soldiers attack her village, her daughter, and a Latina woman from present-day Los Angeles who becomes fascinated by her own ancestry. Recounts the lives of a nineteenth-century Indian woman who flees the desert of New Mexico when Mexican soldiers attack her village, her daughter, and a Latina woman from present-day Los Angeles who becomes fascinated by her own ancestry.
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- Fiction
- Ficción
- Indian women
- Indias
- Mexican American families
- Mexican American women
- Mujeres mexico-americanas
- Opata Indians
- Opatas
- Fiction, sagas
- California, fiction
- Los angeles (calif.), fiction
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ISBN 9780156006347 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt