The Memories of Ana Calderón

“They said that no boy could live where I had lived. I knew my father resented me for what I had done to my mother’s insides.” After her birth, Ana Calderón’s mother isn’t able to carry a male child to full term, losing three baby boys. And when her mother dies, she becomes fully responsible for her seven younger siblings, ending her days of carefree romping on the beaches of southern Mexico. But even worse, she will carry forever her father’s resentment.
Ana is a young girl when her father…