The Dresser with Colored Drawers

A baptismal locket, a notebook with poems, a train ticket… Each of these items hidden in an antique dresser holds memories of the lives of people close and far away. In just one night, the heroine must turn every key in the locks and learn the fate of her family—from the Civil War in Spain to the present day. The objects tell her stories of Rita, Leonora, and Carmen—women who found the strength to love, to laugh, and to hope as they rose on their feet after every blow of fate. Olivia Ruiz’s novel, which has already won hundreds of thousands of listeners, is about how important it is to “know where we came from in order to know where we’re going.”