Whenever we think of a hero who can save the world or the universe from an apocalypse, one image always comes to mind: grandma. If I had a dollar for every action movie in which an older woman saves the day… But while there’s a grandmother and an apocalypse in Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s new novel Candelaria (hardcover, Kindle), there’s more to this story than just an old woman saving the day, as Lozada-Oliva discusses in the following email interview.