![]() Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is a poet and professor in Modern Languages and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Seattle University. ![]() A member of the Ópata Nation, Kathleen makes her home on Suquamish territory.ĭr. Kathleen is the co-editor of Weeping Women: La Llorona’s Presence in Modern Latinx and Chicanx Lore. ![]() Her six books include a short story collection, three novels, a book of essays, and The Deepest Roots, a combination memoir and blueprint for environmental sustainability. Kathleen Alcalá was born in Compton, California, to Mexican parents and grew up in San Bernardino. Inspired by the author’s research into her own family history, The Flower in the Skull illuminates the importance of a connection to ancestors-a connection that survives colonial violence and generational trauma. The story jumps forward to 1990s Los Angeles, where Shelly, a young Chicana woman, digs through historical archives in search of information about the Ópata people. ![]() ![]() Her daughter, Rosa, feels the trauma of Concha’s loss but struggles to understand her mother’s culture. Spanning 130 years, The Flower in the Skull opens in the 1870s with Concha, an Ópata Indian woman who has fled to Tucson, where she works as a housekeeper and clings to memories of her old way of life. ![]()
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