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Daughters of the Stone Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa


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"Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers"

It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land.

Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world.

Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past.

Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together.

Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart.

The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.

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  • Title Daughters of the Stone
  • Author Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 323
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thomas Dunne Books
  • Date 2009-09
  • ISBN 9780312539269 / 0312539266
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.3 in (20.83 x 14.22 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Plantation life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009013474
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York City. She taught in the New York City school system before becoming a young-adult librarian. Her first novel, "Daughters of the Stone," was a finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. Dahlma has been named the winner of both the Best Female Author and Best New Author awards by the Go on Girl! Book Club. She has also won the Bronx Council on the Arts ACE and BRIO awards, as well as a Literary Arts Fellowship. She lives in the Bronx.

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