"Percy Jackson's hope for a normal senior year is shattered as the gods present him with three quests, beginning with the retrieval of Zeus's goblet, in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation for college."--
Corazon Lopez looks forward to her eleventh birthday, when she can finally be trained in wielding babaylan magic and use it to bring her parents back to life.
Inspired by the author's childhood, this novel in verse picks up two years after Hà and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Việt Nam War when Mother decides to move the family to Texas for a new job.