Where There Was Fire Women Studies Healing Grounds showcases the BIPOC

Healing Grounds showcases the BIPOC farmers who are leading the regenerative agriculture movement through rich storytelling

It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep

conversational tone

she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative

while in California

Where There Was Fire Women Studies Healing Grounds showcases the BIPOCA lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Companys most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverdes family is changed forever. Now, twenty seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants