![]() It is also a story of survival in a harsh, often dangerous world. ![]() The Flower in the Skull is rich in the lore of the Southwest and tells the little-known tale of the assimilation and loss of the indigenous people of the Sonoran desert. There, she meets a woman whose family seems unexpectedly linked to her own. Troubled by the unwanted sexual advances of a boss, she escapes for several weeks to Tucson on a project to seek out photographs of a lost Indian tribe-the Opata. The third woman to tell her story is Shelly, a Latina who works in a publishing house in modern-day Los Angeles. At 15, she marries a young evangelical minister and is torn between her adopted faith and her mother's spiritualism. Bewildered by her mother's devotion to the lost paradise of her native village, Rosa continues the story as a youngster caught between cultures. Defiled first by soldiers and later by an Anglo, she becomes the housekeeper for a wealthy Mexican family and bears an illegitimate child. An Opata girl, Concha, is separated from her family and forced to make her way alone to Tucson. It begins in the 1870s as the Mexican army decimates a small Indian village in order to suppress a native uprising. YA-This moving tale, told by three women, spans more than a century. ![]()
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