The Butterfly's Daughter

By Mary Alice Monroe

Book Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy, a poignant and moving story of one woman making her way from Wisconsin to Mexico, learning her family's history and, subsequently, the power of forgiveness.

Every year, the monarch butterflies--las mariposas--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 abuela--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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439170681
• ISBN13: 9781439170687
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

One of my favorite authors…

I have loved everyone of Mary Alice Monroe’s novels! The Butterfly’s Daughter did not disappoint…great characters and learned so many interesting facts about Monarch Butterfly’s.