Witches (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781646220687)

The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers

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.

"A story of the world's repeated failure to control feminine power and the sheer magic of language itself. An enthralling, passionate story about secrets both holy and profane." --Catherine Lacey, author of Pew and Nobody Is Ever Missing

Author: Brenda Lozano
ISBN-10: 1646220684
ISBN-13: 9781646220687
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.33w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2022 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 05/16/2022
Booklist 07/01/2022 pg. 21
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 90
Foreword 08/27/2022
Shelf Awareness 09/02/2022