Sixteen-year-old Martha has to adjust to a new life with her maternal grandmother, a respected curandera—or healer—in Laredo, Texas, after her reliably unreliable mother dumps her at the pink house filled with tokens of her mom's childhood that might, maybe, explain why she abandoned Martha, leaving her with a family she never knew existed.
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Sixteen-year-old Martha has to adjust to a new life with her maternal grandmother, a respected curandera—or healer—in Laredo, Texas, after her reliably unreliable mother dumps her at the pink house filled with tokens of her mom's childhood that might, maybe, explain why she abandoned Martha, leaving her with a family she never knew existed.