Witches Av Brenda Lozano

<p><b>A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.</b><br><br><br><i>''You can''t really know another woman until you know yourself.''</i><br><br>Weaving together two parallel narratives, this is the story of Feliciana, an indigenous curandera (healer), and of Zo¿a journalist: two women drawn together by the murder of Feliciana''s cousin Paloma.<br><br>In the tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional ways of life and belief are a present reality, Feliciana tells the story of her life, her community''s acceptance of her as a genuine curandera and the difficulties faced by her cousin Paloma who is a Muxe (both male and female), in her case a trans woman.<br><br>Growing up in Mexico City, the heart of modern Mexico, Zo¿ttempts to find her way in a hostile world made for men, as she reflects on what drew her to Feliciana and Paloma, and her own relationship with the innate powers of a curander

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