Cinco Puntos Press
240 pages, $16.95

Review by Anjali Enjeti

In The Amado Women, an absorbing debut novel, author Désirée Zamorano portrays the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, wives and husbands, and three sisters who have one another’s backs in the worst of times, even if they irritate one another in the best of times.

Set in 2001 in southern California, this fresh, poignant tale of four women exudes, in perfect balance, strength and vulnerability, betrayal and loyalty. Mercedes (“Mercy”), the sixty-year old matriarch and her three daughters Celeste, Sylvia and Nataly are ambitious, intelligent women whose familial bond is at times both brittle and resilient. Continue reading →