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Jayro Bustamante

O.V. Spanish

Maria, 17, lives in a Guatemalan village at the foot of Pacaya, an active volcano. She is Mayan, a member of the Kaqchikel community. Her life is structured around tradition. Like all young women in her community, she has been promised to a husband chosen for her and can expect a life with many children and hard toil on the coffee plantations. It doesn’t matter how she feels, or what dreams she has of seeing the big city or the rest of the world. But her ultimate fate will turn out to be...