![]() ![]() 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.īrenda Lozano is a fiction writer, essayist, and editor. 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. ![]() There, the two women’s lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Sent to report on Paloma’s murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. 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. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. ![]() They will be in conversation with writer Catherine Lacey. Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, Community Bookstore, and Third Place Books for a virtual event with author Brenda Lozano and translator Heather Cleary to discuss and celebrate the release of Witches. This event will take place virtually on Zoom. ![]()
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