Lotería

By Mario Alberto Zambrano

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, general, Alcoholics, Families, Lotería (Game), Fiction, Selective mutism, Fiction, thrillers, suspense

Description: Using a deck of Lotería cards as her muse, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo, a ward of the state who has retreated into silence, finds each shuffle sparking a random memory that, pieced together, brings into focus the events that led to her present situation.