Witches av Brenda Lozano

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<p><b>A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin America today<br></b><br><i>This is the story of who Feliciana is, and of who Paloma was.</i><br><br><i>I had wanted to get to know them, but I realised right away </i><i>that the people I needed to know better were my sister Leandra and </i><i>my mother. Myself. I came to understand that </i><i>you can''t really know another woman until you know yourself... </i><br><br><br>Weaving together two parallel narratives, Witches tells the story of Feliciana, an indigenous curandera or healer, and Zoe, a journalist: two women who meet through the murder of Feliciana''s cousin Paloma.<br><br>In the tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional ways and traditional beliefs are a present reality, Feliciana tells the story of her life, her community''s acceptance of her as a genuine curandera and the difficult choices faced by her joyful and spirited cousin Paloma who is both a healer and a Muxe - a trans