When Alejandra meets her birth mother Cathy though, you start to see she part of her started to wake up before she departed Texas for Philadelphia. Because of them many roads that Alejandra would have taken she did not, it seems she was afraid of disappointing two people she didn’t even really like. And I thought it was interesting that Castro shows how Alejandra being adopted (even though by a half Mexican woman and white man) ended up harming her and many of the children they raised because of the hyper religious parents she had. When she realizes something may be haunting her and could hurt them, she decides to do whatever it takes to kill the thing that stalks them. But you feel the love she has for her children starting to break through. She’s indifferent to her husband and her children at first. I loved how we get to see Alejandra wake all the way up by the end of the book. Telling her that she’s a bad mother, that her children would be better off with her, and that in the end she may take a road many of her ancestors did, and allows whatever is haunting to take her and then her eldest daughter. However, the book quickly moves that something seems to be haunting Alejandra. You initially think that maybe Alejandra is suffering from post-partum depression. Recently moved from Texas to Philadelphia with her husband and three children, she feels adrift. We follow 30 something year old Alejandra. Please note that I received this book via NetGalley.
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