"Zamorano's collection of stories is a medley of surprises, heartbreak, and triumph. In these tales, Zamorano offers a feast both magical and stark, interweaving miracles and realities of working-class daily life amid the bonds of family--mothers and sons, daughters and grandmothers, lovers snatching tenderness in ambiguous spaces--and with deft language and precise, evocative style, lays open the complicated webbing connecting this community." -- Marcela Fuentes , author of Malas , Reforma National Book Award winner "How deft, vibrant, and heartfelt these stories are. I love the way they slip, subtly, from quiet domesticity to magic, then back again; I love even more how often the conduit for those shifts is a perfectly imagined mundane detail, such as an inherited cooking pot or a mother's shed strands of hair. And when these stories offer glimpses of wonder, they do so in order to give Zamorano's characters justice that the world denies them." -- Holly Goddard Jones , author of Antipodes: Stories and Girl Trouble: Stories "Désirée Zamorano's delightful debut story collection is an enchanting world of varied, fascinating, mostly Latine characters whose interiority she explores masterfully. With eloquence and care, Zamorano renders a refreshing range of Latinas of all classes--daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and wives--whose disparate experiences include a college professor with a PhD, a dental hygienist, a business woman at the top of her game, a student, and even God Herself. This gorgeous, entertaining collection of characters and stories is a triumph.

" -- Toni Ann Johnson , author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning linked story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste , and But Where's Home "Zamorano offers a significant contribution to Latinx short story collections." -- Norma Cantú , Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Trinity University, author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera.