Signed, Anna Maria
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Last published Sun, Nov 17, 2019
A Coruna, Spain 1801.
Anna Maria Gonzalez and her mother live impoverished in the basement of a Catholic boarding school where they work. Their lives were simple: work had all week for measly pay, Church on Sunday. Rinse and repeat.
Anna's mother has led a mysterious life in which she refuses to talk about. A past, which includes Anna's estranged father and her immigration from Venezuela to Spain.
After a devastating smallpox's wave comes to the school takes the life of Anna's mother, she is left only with her best friend, Anthony.
Mama's last dying words to Anna were a request:
Leave A Coruna.
Now, with the help of Anthony and with others along the way, she must:
-Defeat the evil school Dean who had oppressed and abused Mama
-Find her Father all the way across the Atlantic
-Get an education and write her way out of the basement.
And do all of this in the face of racism, classism, her depression and her own self doubt.
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