Dimensions
176 x 163 x 19mm
An inspiring novel about family, the memories of war, and a woman who valiantly rallies both herself and those she loves into reconciling with the past.
'Let Their Spirits Dance' is a moving, spirited story of a family who takes a trip to the Vietnam Memorial thirty years after the war, whose trip becomes a spiritual journey, and a path towards healing.
The novel's main character, Teresa Ramirez, is a schoolteacher from the barrio of El Cielito in Arizona, who is staying with her elderly mother while going through a difficult divorce. She and her family are still haunted by the death of her brother Jesse in the Vietnam War, and her mother cherishes the memory of her son's words to her as he boarded the plane for Vietnam, when he told her she would hear his voice again.
When Teresa's ailing mother sees a photograph of the Vietnam War Memorial, after hearing her son's voice in dreams and hallucinations, she makes a vow to touch his name on the Wall, and a government error gives them the money to do so.
The family's slow caravan to Washington DC, which gathers people and publicity, is juxtaposed with flashbacks to the family's life in the late 1960s. 'Let Their Spirits Dance' is a vivid novel by a new and vibrant voice in fiction.
