Using a deck of Loteraia cards as her muse, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo, a ward of the state who has retreated into silence, finds each shuffle sparking a random memory that, pieced together, brings
In Mario Alberto Zambrano's acclaimed literary debut, "a Mexican-American girl uses the game of Lotera to reveal her memories, which add up to a heart-wrenching tale of violence, love and a broken fam
In Loteria, the spellbinding literary debut by Mario Alberto Zambrano, a young girl tells the story of her family’s tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous Latin American game of chance.