By: Brenda Lozano, Heather Cleary - translator
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 08-16-22
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Occult
Language: English
Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
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.
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