A brilliant multigenerational story of trauma, rage, and revenge. The narrative passes back and forth between granddaughter and grandmother, each telling their pieces of the story. Grandmother with her saints and her pain; granddaughter with her anger and her hopeless dreams. And the backdrop to it all is a restless haunted house, full of the shades of the dead from the village below and the hills around. Not only is this book rich in its exploration of the chain of trauma as passed from mother to daughter down the family line, it also digs deeply into classism. Class consciousness is the beating heart of this book.