Not Myself Without You follows a working-class Puerto Rican family of the 1950s whose lives are surrounded by spirits, ghosts, and witches, a result of incantations performed in their living room. Chronicling nearly two decades of the family's history, including their occult activities, the story follows these characters as they move around pulled by economic, political, and the social conditions of the times as well as by their own intense desires. Based on oral history and research, this novel is the author's own memoir with a strong fictional twist.

Burton, who was born in Mexico, was the first Mexican-American woman to write novels in English and the first 19th century California writer to publish a novel in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. This, her first book, tells the story of Lola, a young, orphaned Mexican girl rescued from Indian captors and taken across the country to live. Through a riveting personal story of a young girl's coming-of-age Who Would Have Thought It? offers a stunning portrayal of the clash of cultures and communities, and a fresh perspective on Civil War America. This is a classics "rediscovery".

After her mother's death, Imelda Richardson returns to the small town in Jamaica where she is from.When Tessa Walcott's panties are stolen, she and Imelda set up a Neighbourhood Watch and soon find themselves opposed by the local minister as old and new tensions come to a head.