Witches

by Brenda Lozano Narrated by Kyla García

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2022 - AudioFile

Narrator Kyla Garcia offers an engrossing performance of this thoughtful audiobook in translation, which examines gender expectations. Feliciana, voiced lyrically, with a slight Mexican accent, is a world-famous traditional healer whose transfem cousin and teacher, Paloma, has been brutally murdered. Zoe, a young journalist from Mexico City sent to cover Paloma’s death, is portrayed with an American accent and sharper inflections. The juxtaposition of narration styles enhances the contrast between Zoe’s modern childhood and Feliciana’s traditional Indigenous upbringing. As Zoe’s interview progresses, she finds several of her own life experiences reflected in surprising ways in Feliciana’s memories, ultimately revealing the shared difficulties of women who are navigating lives that men would forbid access to. A.K.R. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2022 - AudioFile

Narrator Kyla Garcia offers an engrossing performance of this thoughtful audiobook in translation, which examines gender expectations. Feliciana, voiced lyrically, with a slight Mexican accent, is a world-famous traditional healer whose transfem cousin and teacher, Paloma, has been brutally murdered. Zoe, a young journalist from Mexico City sent to cover Paloma’s death, is portrayed with an American accent and sharper inflections. The juxtaposition of narration styles enhances the contrast between Zoe’s modern childhood and Feliciana’s traditional Indigenous upbringing. As Zoe’s interview progresses, she finds several of her own life experiences reflected in surprising ways in Feliciana’s memories, ultimately revealing the shared difficulties of women who are navigating lives that men would forbid access to. A.K.R. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175377249
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	08/16/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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