Witches

The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico,from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers Paloma is dead. But before she was murderedbefore she was even Palomashe was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murderedshe taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladasand about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on PalomaΓÇÖs murderZoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. Therethe two womenΓÇÖs lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her communityand Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a womanfinding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men. Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract one anotherthis extraordinary novel envisions the healer as storyteller and the writer as healerand offers a generous and nuanced understanding of a world that can be at turns violent and exultantcruel and full of hope. ΓÇ£A story of the worldΓÇÖs repeated failure to control feminine power and the sheer magic of language itself. An enthrallingpassionate story about secrets both holy and profane.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöCatherine Laceyauthor of Pew and Nobody Is Ever Missing