Everyone Knows You Go Home

An International Latino Book Award winner.

Everyone Knows You Go Home is prescient, tackling issues of family division, the arduous journey of crossing from one country into the next, and the sacrifices we make in exchange for a better future. Houston Chronicle

The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, hes already deadan apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omars familyespecially his wife, Eldato let him redeem himself.

Isabel and Martin settle into married life in a Texas border town, and Omar returns each year on the celebratory Day of the Dead. Every year Isabel listens, but to the aggrieved Martin and Elda, Omars spirit remains invisible. Through his visits, Isabel gains insight into not just the truth about his disappearance and her husbands childhood but also the ways grief can eat away at love. When Martins teenage nephew crosses the Mexican border and takes refuge in Isabel and Martins home, questions about past and future homes, borders, and belonging arise that may finally lead to forgivenessand alter all their lives forever.