Un Sol De Tortilla

About this book

A tender magical story about 12 year old Izzy Roybal who is sent to spend the summer in her nanas New Mexico village where she is soon caught up in the foreign world of her own culture from patron saints and soulful food to the curious and magical blessings Nana gives her tortillas. In Nanas village she meets Mateo the adventurous treasure seeking thirteen year old boy who lives on the other side of the bolted door in Izzys bedroom and six year old Maggie who is raising her cat Frida as a dog and sees marshmallow ghosts float out windows. When the wind begins to whisper to Izzy she is soon led on an adventure to learn about her fathers mysterious death who she really is and to connect the hidden pieces of her past.