Wild Scent of Mastranto Flowers

The Aroma of Mastranto takes place in 2012, and is the story of twelve-year-old Ana’s trip back to Venezuela, where she was born. She had moved to Spain with her parents when she was a baby, and now is revisiting her native country for the first time.
As Ana travels through Venezuela with her father, we read the letters she writes to a school friend telling her impressions of a divided, politicized...