The Winds of Maracaibo: A Novel

A propulsive family drama, the story of a woman determined to recover her kidnapped daughter amid the ruins of Chávez’s social revolution—the fast-paced English-language debut of an award-winning and bestselling author that brings the Venezuelan migrant crisis to life in lyrical, seething prose, for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jesmyn Ward, and Gabriela Garcia
"A searing portrait of Venezuela’s migrant crisis and the ferocity of a mother’s love. Through her dazzling English-language debut, María Elena Morán provides a type of antidote for the broad generalizations that breed indifference. A powerful story of survival, displacement, and the relentless search for home." —Kali Fajardo-Anstine, bestselling author of Woman of Light
It was too late now, y la ternura no basta—now that she’d tasted the gunpowder, and the gunpowder was bolivariano, revolutionary. And that unthinkable traitor Camilo was...