What Luisa Knows

By: Leger, Robert

As a snowstorm sweeps across northern New Mexico in 1939, Luisa Tenouil races toward the remote ranch where her father has spoken his last words:

"And the rest, Luisa knows what to do."

But does she?

Sixteen years earlier, nineteen-year-old Luisa traveled two hundred miles to a state boarding school. Books opened a world beyond imagination. Basketball transformed the shy girl into a leader. A secret affair with teacher Felipe Lucero awakened love and dreams of a Christmas wedding.

But sometimes the love that saves us is not the love we expected.

As the storm rages, Luisa finds her father dead, her mother and six youngest siblings teetering on collapse, and her father's cryptic words haunting her. Can she honor his memory and keep the family whole? Can she stare down the upheavals of World War II, racist red lines, and societal norms that insist a woman is incomplete without a man?

How much can she give to the people she loves before sacrifice becomes surrender?

Inspired by family stories and New Mexico's haunting beauty, What Luisa Knows pulses with Hispanic folk music and customs, the pithy wisdom of dichos, and prophetic dreams inhabited by owls, coyotes, and the soul-gathering Comadre Sebastiana.

Get caught up in this sweeping story of love, loss, and resilience. Of the lies we tell ourselves, the vows we keep, and Luisa's discovery that losing the life she imagined was the beginning of finding her own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798997901103
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Robert Leger
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"