A review by hamletseinquieta
Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Rosita Arvigo

3.0

This is a difficult one to review. It is extremely interesting, and it is compellingly focused on Don Elijio, the Mayan healer, rather than its narrator. For this bring written in the 90s it was surprisingly less cringey than I expected. But being Latinx and reading this is still difficult. The white author lacks self-awareness, and some of the descriptions and dismissal of certain things are quite terrible but not unexpected. I appreciate the information I learned, even if the narrative voice wasn’t what I would have wanted or hoped for.