And the big, dark secrets she kept closed up in her heart all got ex- posed in those tumultuous months. The know-it-all.īut you see, Grandma was the heart of the matter. Before that, I was simply the family brat and rebel. My namesake, Grandma Dolores Gómez, refused to speak to me or acknowledge my existence for about a year after the name change. Ever since I turned eighteen and had my legal name changed from Dolores-which means aches and pains in Spanish-to Dina. Especially since I was the family’s desgraciada. How did I, in three short months, get to the heart of my Mexican-American family? It wasn’t easy, believe me. It takes a lot of peeling to get to the heart of things.” Grandma Gómez-”Life is like an artichoke. It's a romantic-suspense comedy with many "buen dichos"! SAVING LA FAMILIA by Donna Del Oro, about a latina teacher who's recruited by her Mexican-born grandmother to save her cousins from a dangerous Mexican drug cartel. What’s a girl to do when “la familia” calls? To do so, she has to recruit help from her hated ex-fiance. After all, her stern grandmother tells her, she is the “smart one” in the family. A romantic suspense comedy set in Silicon Valley, a young Latina teacher, Dina Salazar, is asked by her Mexican-born grandmother to rescue her cousins from a dangerous Mexican drug cartel.
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