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Crypto-Jews, secret Jews of Spain and Mexico, are still very much in danger in 1721. Fourteen-year-old Marcela Leon's parents are dragged away to face the last auto-da-fé of the Inquisition in colonial Mexico. Although her parents survive, Marcela's life is forever changed. Sent to the Castillo hacienda for her protection, Marcela has difficulty grasping that safety requires silence about her beliefs. Her forthright speech and budding sexualit...

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A passionate debut novel about a wealthy landowner's wife whose life is turned upside down when she visits the Spanish Court in 17th-century Mexico. A powerful, cautionary tale told with beauty and precision."--Thomas Trebitsch Parker, O. Henry Prize winner.

After World War I, San Francisco is a wild town. Abandoned by her lover, Violetta is swept up in the new, freer ways and becomes America's first embedded journalist. She finds work in a brothel that caters to San Francisco's most powerful men, to write her epic story on the conditions of working women. But federal agents looking to clamp down on both vice and workers' rights don't take kindly to her modern views. Shorter dresses, fair pay for ...