The Butterfly's Daughter (A Romance Bestseller)
Mary Alice Monroe, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, once again touches hearts with her lyrical, poignant, and moving novel <i>The Butterfly’s Daughter</i>!<BR><BR>Every year, the monarch butterflies—<I>las mariposas</I>—fly more than two thousand miles on fragile wings to return to their winter home in Mexico. Now Luz Avila makes that same perilous journey south as she honors a vow to her beloved <I>abuela</I>—the grandmother who raised her—to return her ashes to her ancestral village. As Luz departs Milwaukee in a ramshackle old VW Bug, she finds her heart opened by a series of seemingly random encounters with remarkable women. In San Antonio, however, a startling revelation awaits: a reunion with a woman from her past. Together, the two cross into Mexico to await the returning monarchs in the little village Abuela called home, but they are also crossing a border that separates past from present . . . and truth from lies.