Odilia, the eldest, wants to notify the authorities and call it a day but Juanita, the self-proclaimed brainiac of the group, finds a wallet in the dead man’s boot with a picture of his family and an ID showing that he comes from a Mexican town some eight hours away. The author states that she modeled this coming of age story on The Odyssey, and the girls’ strange journey begins with the appearance of a dead man in their swimming hole. Read Related: That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone Ranging in age between 10 and 16, the girls “go wild,” biking all over their small town and spending entire days swimming in the waters of the Rio Grande, the border (as it turns out), not just of the United States and Mexico, but of this world and another stranger world inhabited by folkloric beings. Their handsome father, a Tejano singer, disappeared a year before, and their mother has stepped into the breach by taking a job that leaves her gone much of the day. The five Garza girls have a close bond that ties them together, and difficult family circumstances.
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