Lozano writes their stories, and their growing connection, with such warmth that often reading Witches feels like sneaking into Feliciana's house with Zoe. The contrast between them is irresistible. 'Feliciana's sections are looping and abstract, while Zoe's are as clipped and sharp as any journalist's writing would be. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, NYLON, Literary Hub, and The Millions An enthralling, passionate story about secrets both holy and profane.” -Catherine Lacey, author of Pew and Nobody Is Ever Missing “A story of the world’s repeated failure to control feminine power and the sheer magic of language itself. Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract one another, this extraordinary novel envisions the healer as storyteller and the writer as healer, and offers a generous and nuanced understanding of a world that can be at turns violent and exultant, cruel and full of hope. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her community, and Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a woman, finding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men. There, the two women’s lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Sent to report on Paloma’s murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe.

Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. 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

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