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When a train crashes, folks from the accident start to wander into the house. How to feed them? There’s barely enough food for the party.

And who is the stranger who seems to have a past with Emerald's mother?  And why does Smudge have a horse upstairs in her bedroom?

I did not know I was reading a Young Adult book, but it was a very hard read for me.  I loved how it was written, but the subject of the Holocaust is always a tough one.  Death narrates this book and he pulls you in quickly.  Have a box of tissues ready.

Historical fiction of Spanish Jews leaving Spain and coming to new Spain (Mexico) and northern New Mexico. still being forced by the Catholic Church to convert, (Conversos). If caught practicing their Jewish faith they are sent to jail or worse yet, burned at the stake.