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020			_a9781529412215
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a823 LOZ
100			_aLozano, Brenda _eauthor
245			_aWitches / _cBrenda Lozano, translated from spanish by Heather Clearly
300			_a281 pages ; _c20 cm.
520			_aPaloma 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.
650			_aOccult & Supernatural _vFiction
650			_aEnglish fiction.
700			_aClearly, Heather _etranslator
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