Arribada

By: Estela GonzÃ¡lez

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Hardcover | 10 May 2022

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Mariana Sanchez Celis has traveled the world as a pianist trained at the Juilliard School of Music. But when her mother has a stroke and her beloved uncle suddenly disappears, Mariana must put her life on hold to return to her home in Ayotlan, Mexico.

She soon discovers her town is no longer the place she remembers. Ayotlan's beaches, sea turtle colonies, and historic center are decimated under decades of neglect and abuse. What part did her late father have in this? And could it be related to her uncle's disappearance?

When Fernanda Lucero, a member of the indigenous Concaac people, convinces Mariana to join her sea turtle and architectural conservation projects, the deepening love between Mariana and Fernanda threatens to put them both further in harm's way. This, together with the web of secrets Mariana unravels, stands to radically transform her and her family's fate.

Arribada is the story of a well-to-do woman pushed to confront her role in environmental and social injustice. It is the saga of a family faced with the realization that their comfortable position rests, beyond a strong work ethic, on crimes against what they hold dearest: the natural world, their town, and their loved ones.

Industry Reviews

Arribada is romantic, poetic, elegiac, and fascinating. Gonz¡lez has created a world of love and mystery. Word to word, event to event, this novel is beautiful. It begs to be savored.

-Sandra Scofield, author of Swim: Stories of the Sixties and The Last Draft

A novel about how even the most painful truths can bring power and freedom.

-Eileen Gonzales, Foreword Reviews

This novel will open eyes.

-Amy Hoffman, author of Dot & Ralfie and other books

Arribada is a wonderful read, and like its title implies, it has the power to make readers arrive where it matters.

-Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels

Set in a fictional seaside locale, based partly on Mazatl¡n, this seductive, mesmerizing novel lyrically interweaves the encroaching consumerism of resorts, thinning beaches, and disappearing tortoises, all while presenting an intimate, generational family portrait replete with orphans, murder, sensuality, and compassion, including a lesbian affair that leads to a community reclamation of land. And always at the center-the ocean. Unforgettable.

-Lee Hope, Founding Editor, Solstice Magazine

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