{"product_id":"the-paper-crown-ricardo-gomez-9798301447983","title":"The Paper Crown: A Century of Heritage and Becoming (1480-1580)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE PAPER CROWN\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Century of Heritage and Becoming (1490-1585)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 1490 Spain, a Jewish merchant signs his family's conversion papers. Five centuries later, his descendant discovers that survival was written in ink-and blood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Gonzalo Palencia puts quill to parchment in the shadow of the Inquisition, he knows the truth: the documents that save his family will also erase them. What the Church cannot see, it cannot burn. So begins a legacy of three ledgers-one for officials, one for allies, one for the truths that must never be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis daughter Mariana inherits more than wealth and a noble title. She inherits the weight of impossible choices: how far will she go to protect her son when documentation alone isn't enough? Her grandson Juan carries forged papers across the Atlantic to the mountains of Nueva Granada, where he discovers that the indigenous peoples of Colombia have been hiding their own truths in plain sight for generations. And Juan's son Cristóbal, born into all three worlds at once, must find a way to weave them together before colonial suspicion tears everything apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning a century of persecution, reinvention, and resilience, \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Crown\u003c\/i\u003e follows four generations of a converso family as they transform from Spanish Jews to colonial nobility-never losing the hidden core of who they are. From the counting houses of Extremadura to the gold mines of the Andes, from secret synagogues to cathedral weddings that mask midnight escapes, this is a story of people who learned that identity isn't what you declare. It's what you protect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn present-day Bogotá, a woman named Cuchu pores over documents for her Spanish citizenship application-tracing the very ancestors who were expelled for believing the wrong things. When she discovers a tarnished silver ring hidden in her grandmother's belongings, she realizes the paper trail was never just bureaucracy. It was survival, encoded in margins and margins, waiting five hundred years to be read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers who loved: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePeople of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e by Geraldine Brooks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Weight of Ink\u003c\/i\u003e by Rachel Kadish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e by Isabel Allende\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Mapmaker's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e by Laurel Corona\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Island of Sea Women\u003c\/i\u003e by Lisa See\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ricardo Gomez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798301447983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Ricardo Gomez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851070058751,"sku":"9798301447983","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-paper-crown-ricardo-gomez-9798301447983","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}