Ana Lena Rivera
Grijalbo 2022
A family saga of strong women and the sewing machine that linked their lives
Great-grandmother's old sewing machine is the only belonging that passes from generation to generation from mothers to daughters in Ana's family, but when her daughter Alba asks for it as a gift for her twenty-fifth birthday, she becomes suspicious of her daughter's intentions regarding the old Singer, a symbol for Alba of the misfortune, unhappiness and submission of the women in her family. To explain to her daughter the importance of preserving the old machine, Ana will have to take a journey through four generations of women marked by the social circumstances of the time in which they lived. The history of each of them, their misfortunes, their loves and heartbreaks, their griefs and their experiences, left a mark on the life of those who came later.
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