The Volcano Daughters

Rich and furious, hilarious and devastating, The Volcano Daughters is the story of two sisters through and beyond La Matanza, the 1932 massacre that cost 30,000 lives and changed El Salvador forever.

Graciela is raised in the Izalco volcanos, dusty-kneed and bound closely to her friends, until a messenger from the Capital comes to claim her: at nine years old she has been selected to work as the dictator’s oracle, a muse to help foresee the future of El Salvador. Brought to the Capital, far from her mother and friends, she meets Consuelo, the sister she’s never known. Consuelo is wilful, talented and desirous, and the sisters are a small fortress within the dictator’s regime. But they are no match for the cruelty of El Gran Pendejo—and in the aftermath of La Matanza they barely escape, each believing the other to be dead, fleeing to California, Paris, and beyond, to run, to reinvent their lives, and to reconnect at the least likely moment.

Narrated by a chorus of victims of the massacre—ghost girls who have died, but who have not yet finished telling their story—The Volcano Daughters is an unforgettable story about reclaiming the truth.