"Rey M. Rodríguez has written a love letter to all of us women, sisters, mothers. His is an important voice that needs to be heard. His words, full of poetry and heart, will touch your soul and make you feel less alone."

-Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Across a Hundred Mountains, winner of the American Book Award and the Premio Aztlán Literary Award

"A treatise in poetry about one of the most important stories of our time-the formation and work of Proyecto Pastoral in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Violence, drugs, and death plagued these streets, which in the 1990s and into the 2000s were the most gang-inflicted in the country. But mothers stood up for healing, peace, for saving the children. Projects arose to help youth but also the unhoused and migrants. People in need. God's work. Powerful figures like Father Greg Boyle met the call. Here Rey M. Rodríguez uses poems to carry their voices, stories, pains, and joys. In Spanish and English, in any language, it's a work of art, a work of action."

-Luis J. Rodríguez, former Los Angeles Poet Laureate, author of Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." and It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

"Written for the community and the love found within, Rodríguez's collection is a moving tribute to the women of Boyle Heights. With keen tenderness, Rodriguez's ability to share the stories about the women, mothers and grandmothers of his community, in a place that provides both sanctuary and loss, with the ceaseless nature of love is both inspiring and impressive. Rodriguez's words reveal the light found within."

-m.s. RedCherries, author of mother, winner of the American Book Award and National Book Award Finalist