The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters

Having lost their mother, the four Gabaldon sisters consider their elderly Pueblo housekeeper as their surrogate Grandmother. As the girls grow into women, they learn the truth about their mysterious caretaker, her legacy, and a family secret.

Lorraine L+¦pez is an Assistant Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at VanderbiltUniversity in Nashville, Tennessee. She won the 2003 Independent Publishers Book Award for Multicultural Fiction, awarded by the Jenkins Group, for Soy la Avon Lady and other Stories. The same work also won the 2003 Latino Book Award for Short Stories, awarded by the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. In 2001, L+¦pez was awarded the Inaugural Miguel Marmol Prize for Fiction, selected by Sandra Cisneros and awarded by Curbstone Press, for a first book-length work of fiction of a Latino/a writer.