Woman of Light

Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you're swimming under a big, sparkling night sky * Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You *
An intimate and intensely moving story of a Latinx and Indigenous family in the American West. Kali Fajardo-Anstine's lyrical, unpretentious prose renders the generations of women of this story in all of their complexity, offering a nuanced perspective on how the past can inform the future . . . A formidable, necessary voice in fiction * Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising *
A fascinatingly rich setting . . . Fajardo-Anstine is brilliant at evoking the everyday resilience of people carrying centuries of history in their souls . . . Woman of Light achieves something very satisfying as a soapy, immersive saga - a feat of old-school storytelling * The Observer *
With a single phrase, line of dialogue, description, Fajardo-Anstine has the power to accurately express the joy and sadness in a person's life, their history, how the world comes into contact with us, and how we come into contact with the world. . . . Captivating * Mieko Kawakami, author of Breasts and Eggs *
[A] bewitching debut novel * BBC's History magazine *
This novel is indelible, and shines its big light on the Lopez family so brightly that I could draw a map of their breath. . . . An absolutely glorious novel * Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here *
A rare and wondrous kind of novel that assembles the universe from mere words, whose unforgettable characters haunt like long shadows in the southwestern light * Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success *
Pure, simple, and luminescent . . . There are no other words to describe Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light; a brilliant conflagration of a story that opens the eyes and inflames the heart * Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire series *
A cinematic, epic story. Kali Fajardo-Anstine brings her keen understanding of desire, vulnerability, and destiny to this gorgeous reclaiming of lost history * Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk *
Fajardo-Anstine's storytelling is absolutely engrossing * Shondaland *
A transporting story of the importance of family history told in a luminescent style * Good Housekeeping *
A lush, immersive historical novel * Kirkus Reviews *
An entrancing book about the stories we carry, the ones we need to keep telling. Fajardo-Anstine has given us another stunning cast of characters to root for * Lithub *
A novel with vast reach * Electric Literature *
An unparalleled generational saga . . . one of the most potent voices in contemporary Latino and Native American literature * BeLatina *
Woman of Light is a sweeping family saga, as the Lopez family makes their way back to their generational home. Farjado-Anstine incorporates the culturally significant elements of magical realism and nonlinear storytelling in her work. * Bookriot *
There is so much to love about this saga . . . this novel is wholly engrossing. Loved it. * Roxane Gay, via Goodreads *