The Inheritance of Orquídea Divinaby Zoraida Córdova
Orquídea is cursed with incredible luck. After five husbands, she never leaves home. Her children and grandchildren come home for her death, but she doesn’t die, and they are cursed. Lots of fantastical things happen, but I never saw the point.
Two key descendants are granddaughter Marimar and grandson Rey. They are both through her second husband. Marimar’s mother is daughter Pena. Rey’s mother is daughter Parcha. Two others are Tati and her daughter Rhiannon. Tatu’s father is Orquidea’s third husband, Hector. Orquidea’s half-sister Ana Cruz also has a major role in this story, along with the Londoño Spectacular Spectacular, a traveling circus, sideshow, and carnival. The book felt like a bad psychedelic trip.
Some excerpts:
When she left Ecuador for good, she learned how to leave pieces of herself behind. Pieces that her descendants would one day try to collect to put her back together. It took twenty years and two husbands, but Orquídea Divina made it to the United States. Despite having been born on a cosmic convergence of bad luck, Orquídea had discovered a loophole. But that’s to come later in her story. This is about the woman and the house that had never been—until one day, they were undeniably there.
“Tell her to use the phone like normal people,” Marimar shouted at the bird. The kids below looked up and, realizing who it was, tittered and whisper-hissed the words bruja loca.
Rhiannon’s rose never stopped changing, and she never stopped talking to the dragonflies that returned, the birds and deer that trailed after her. Mike’s parents eventually called to check up on their granddaughter, but it was Marimar who adopted her. Marimar, who told her the same stories their mothers grew up hearing. It was Rey who taught her how to paint, how to curse, how to find hidden doors. Enrique, who taught her how to apologize. Caleb Jr. who taught her about the science of plants. Ernesta, how to classify the species of fish that should not exist in their valley, but the Montoyas had a habit of ignoring what should be possible.
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