'Brenda Lozano’s new novel is highly original, beautifully written, and graced with a hypnotically compelling narrative style. In its final pages, the novel achieves a kind of incantatory power, enacting the alternate forms of knowing that the book is celebrating.” - Chicago Review of Books Yet while Hurricane Season examines toxic masculinity from a largely male perspective, Witches is grounded in the perspectives of two women and how they come to locate their own sources of power. “Like Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, Witches takes as its starting point the murder of a trans woman and explores the underbelly of misogyny and femicide in Mexican culture.

Powerful and complex, this marks a new turn from an intriguing writer.” – Publishers Weekly “Lozano does a wonderful job distinguishing the disparate characters and their fluid identities. “In Brujas, Brenda Lozano invokes language that is territory of the unknown, a bridge between worlds, that weaves bonds, language as a place of revelation.” Gabriela Jauregui Ancestral, rural, magical Mexico and today’s fast-paced urban Mexico take each other by the hand in this extraordinary novel that speaks with great delicacy of the female identity, and how women get to know each other to better know themselves, heal wounds, and find their own path.

Before telling her own story, she wants to hear Zoe’s. She has unwittingly become the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, but Feliciana has no interest in money or fame. The most awaited and ambitious novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of female Latin American writers.Ī young journalist named Zoe travels from Mexico City to the remote area of San Felipe to write an article about Feliciana, an elderly wise woman whose healing arts attract writers, filmmakers and millionaires from around the world.

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