Chapters 1-2
This is the primary setting for Chapters 1 and 2.
The Rio Grande (river)
This legendary weeping woman appears to Odilia at the river and gives her a magical ear pendant to help complete their journey to Mexico.
La Llorona
At the checkpoint in Mexico, Odilia gives this to the border agent to let them through.
Money
Cecilia was putting this item in the girls' food to keep them sleepy.
Drugs
Odilia uses La Llorona's ear pendant to hypnotize Cecilia and force her to reveal this.
The truth about how to get home
This fourteen-year-old narrator is the eldest of five sisters and initially tries to prevent her siblings from reporting the dead body to authorities.
Odilia
Odilia uses this magical object at the American customs booth to distract the toll officer and allow them to cross the border with the dead body.
Ear pendant
This singer/song made the sisters kind to each other again at the end of Chapter 5.
Selena/Bidi Bidi Bom Bom
According to the newspaper, both Mamá and this person are persons of interest in the investigation of the girls' disappearance.
Papa
After being threatened by the girls, Cecilia calls upon these supernatural forces to punish them as they leave her house.
Children of the Dark/Night
The five sisters discover this item hidden in the dead man's sock, which they later decide to use to fund their trip to Mexico.
Money
In this version of La Llorona's story, this is how her children actually died.
They drowned on accident.
When the sisters arrive at the house in El Sacrificio, this important event is happening.
Quinceañera
According to Chief Jiménez on the news, Gabriel Pérdido was this, which puts the girls in greater danger than anyone realized.
Drug dealer
An old man at Teresita's property gives the exhausted girls this, which he claims is the best in all of Mexico.
Water
These sisters are described as "the pretty ones" with honey-brown hair and hazel eyes, and they have aspirations of making it in Hollywood.
Delia and Velia
La Llorona tells Odilia that to refuse the journey would be this.
Unfortunate (bad, not good, other synonyms)
This enormous great Dane dog jumps into the car once the girls arrive at the Perdito house.
Serberus
Cecilia claims her husband was killed in the line of duty while working in this profession.
Police Officer
Teresita's husband encountered this legendary creature sucking blood from one of his goats a few months ago.
Chupacabras
Odilia disguises herself in this disguise while her sisters sleep, pretending to be her mother to discourage them from leaving the house.
The waitress uniform
According to La Llorona, this Aztec goddess is invoked through the ear pendant to provide magical assistance during the sisters' journey.
Tonantzin
Gabriel Perdito's wife, Ines, says that the girls have brought her this emotion, but she looks miserable.
Peace/content/synonyms
The car breaks down when this bursts, forcing the girls to abandon Papá's Nova and continue on foot.
Radiator
La Llorona gives Odilia a drink that makes her do this to get rid of the drugs in her system.
Throw up