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"Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardín in San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park's lush beauty, when she becomes aware that she is being watched. An elderly woman approaches her, claiming that she knew Bonita's mother, that they had been friends when Bonita's mother had lived in Mexico as a talented young artist. Bonita tells the stranger that she must be mistaken--her mother was not a painter and had never traveled to Mexico--and rebuffs her offer of companionship. Though the stranger leaves, Bonita cannot shake the feeling that she is being followed. Days later, haunted by the encounter, Bonita seeks out the woman, whom she calls the Trickster, and follows her on a tour of what may, or may not, have been her mother's past. As a series of mysteries brilliantly unfolds, Bonita finds herself unable to escape the Trickster's presence, and she is forced to confront questions of truth and identity and specters of familial and national violence"--