The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing.
The word ‘orphan’ might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like ‘a glove left behind at the bus station.’ What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, ‘Have you seen Marie?’ the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning.
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“Sandra’s neighbors remind her she is part of a community
that understands loss, that can support her through loss. This reminder is one
of the greatest gifts of the book: we may feel like abandoned gloves in our
grief, but when we share our stories with one another, we realize we’re in the
same lost-and-found box together.”
—
San Francisco Chronicle