With shades of Tuck Everlasting flavored with Latin American magical realism, the atmospheric story within a story shines. While her parents prepare to sell Serge's sheep ranch and her older sister, Alta, complains, Carol bonds with Serge over his fairy tales about Sergio and Rosa's centuries-old love story sustained by a magical life-giving tree. He tells her the area's drought is because of the lack of bees, but Carol hears buzzing and spots bees. Serge suffers from dementia and thinks "Caro-leeen-a" needs to learn about her roots. Instead of hanging with her friends in Albuquerque, Carol moves with her family to the New Mexico desert to help her paternal grandfather, Serge, whom she's never met. The summer before seventh grade, Carolina (she now calls herself Carol) can't believe her bad luck. A 12-year-old Mexican-American girl moves in with her estranged grandfather, who tells her fantastic tales she thinks might be true.
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