Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Every year, Celaya “Lala” Reyes' family—aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Struggling to find a voice ab