From the bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club and Hollow Beasts comes a deeply personal historic novel like no other. Where Rabbits Gathered documents the first 100 years of the brutal Spanish invasion of Tewa and other Puebloan Native American lands in what is now northern New Mexico, from 1580 (shortly before the arrival of the expedition of Juan de Oñate) to 1680 (the start of the Pueblo Revolt). The era is brought to life as it was experienced by six generations of women and girls in the same family line, starting with Blue Water, a brilliant Tewa astronomer of 15, as she gives birth to North Star, the last daughter born in the cliff dwelling city of Puye (Where Rabbits Gather). This novel chronicles a fascinating, complicated and long-erased chapter of Southwestern American history - the Spanish colonization, 14 years before the first English settlers arrived in Jamestown, of the stunning mountainous lands of New Mexico, a Germany-sized U.S. state whose early history has more in common with Latin America than it does with New England. This poetic, tragic and often surprisingly funny novel explores the nature of memory and the construction of identity, illuminating how "conquered" cultures quietly, subversively survive, against all odds, in the songs, customs, recipes, stories and art passed from mother to daughter. This is the first of four books in the Daughters of Puye series that traces 24 generations of New Mexico women in one family tree. Based on the author's own family history (she is a direct descendant of three members of Oñate's expedition, and the Puebloan women they raped and enslaved), Where Rabbits Gather has been hailed as a modern-day Indigenous-Hispanic version of the Alex Hailey classic, Roots.