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306 pages • first pub 2022 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780385546669
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Edition Pub Date: 12 July 2022
Ideal for the reader who longs to witness a real-life woman—after a head injury erases her past—traveling with her clairvoyant mother to dig up their curandero grandfather’s bones and, through resurrected ancestral tales, decide whether the family’s gift of the secrets is blessing or burden.
Description
From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family’s otherworldly legacy.For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in th...
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Moods
reflective: 82%
emotional: 72%
mysterious: 46%
informative: 34%
adventurous: 29%
challenging: 28%
inspiring: 25%
dark: 21%
hopeful: 16%
sad: 14%
funny: 11%
tense: 10%
lighthearted: 2%
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Graphic
Eating disorder, Colonisation, ViolenceModerate
Death, Sexual assault, WarMinor
Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Alcoholism306 pages • first pub 2022 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780385546669
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Edition Pub Date: 12 July 2022
Ideal for the reader who longs to witness a real-life woman—after a head injury erases her past—traveling with her clairvoyant mother to dig up their curandero grandfather’s bones and, through resurrected ancestral tales, decide whether the family’s gift of the secrets is blessing or burden.
Description
From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family’s otherworldly legacy.For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in th...
Community Reviews
Moods
reflective: 82%
emotional: 72%
mysterious: 46%
informative: 34%
adventurous: 29%
challenging: 28%
inspiring: 25%
dark: 21%
hopeful: 16%
sad: 14%
funny: 11%
tense: 10%
lighthearted: 2%
Pace
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
Eating disorder, Colonisation, ViolenceModerate
Death, Sexual assault, WarMinor
Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Alcoholism