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Witches / Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary.
Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two women's lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her community, and Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a woman, finding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men. Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract one another, this extraordinary novel envisions the healer as storyteller and the writer as healer, and offers a generous and nuanced understanding of a world that can be at turns violent and exultant, cruel and full of hope.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781696608787
- ISBN: 1696608783
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (07 hr., 19 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Prince Frederick] : HighBridge Audio, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kyla García. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive; viewed August 22, 2022). |
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| Subject: | Healers > Fiction. Healing > Fiction. Mexico > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. Social problem fiction. |