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ISBN: 9781668033234

Content: " Luis Jaramillo weaves a captivating tale of family, tradition, and the enduring power of love. 8212 Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this wild, wondrous novel about the magic that is singing all around us (Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth )8212 in the vein of The Inheritance of Orqu237 dea Divina and La Hacienda . If you call to the witches, they will come. 1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older sisters and longing for a life of adventure. The premonitions and fainting spells she has endured since childhood are getting worse, and Nena worries she'll end up like the scary old curandera down the street. Nena prays for help, and when the mysterious Sister Benedicta arrives late one night, Nena follows her across the borders of space and time. In colonial Mexico, Nena grows into her power, finding love and learning that magic always comes with a price. In the present day, Nena's grandniece, Marta, balances a struggling legal aid practice with motherhood and the care of the now ninety-three-year-old Nena. When Marta agrees to help search for a daughter Nena left in the past, the two forge a fierce connection. Marta's own supernatural powers emerge, awakening her to new possibilities that threaten the life she has constructed. Sexy, smart, and soulful, Luis Jaramillo's The Witches of El Paso pulls us across borders and time to get to the essence of what it means for families to survive this beautiful, fractured world (Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk )."

Content: Biographisches: "Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Witches of El Paso and the award-winning short story collection, The Doctor's Wife . His writing has appeared in LitHub , BOMB Magazine , Los Angeles Review of Books , and other publications. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at The New School. He received an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an MFA from The New School. Find out more at LuisJaramillo.com." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from August 15, 2024 A busy El Paso lawyer embarks on a supernatural journey when she uncovers a startling truth about her great-aunt. In 1943, Elena Eduviges Montoya, called Nena by her family, resigns herself to serving her older sisters as a housemaid and nanny while World War II rages, biding her time until the Germans attacked. But one sweltering afternoon, Nena has a vision foretelling the death of their landlord, and that night she receives a midnight visit from black-clad Sister Benedicta de la Cruz, who transports her to 1792--when El Paso del Norte was still part of New Spain--and leads her to a strange convent, where the nuns are likewise afflicted by visions. Nena learns she must remain in this enchanted realm in order to undertake training to channel La Vista, that part of God that comprises nature and chaos, before she can return home. Fast forward to the present day, and Nena's great-niece, Marta, juggles her roles as a lawyer at a struggling firm, a mother to two boys, and a wife stuck in a humdrum marriage. All this gets turned upside down when an alarming kitchen brings Nena to live with Marta's family. After Marta has an unnerving experience with seemingly supernatural soot (when she opens her eyes again, the wall continues to blink, soot there, soot gone), Nena comes clean about a secret she's kept for a lifetime: She gave birth to a baby, Rosa, during her time on the other side. The revelation sets the women on a path to recover Rosa from the shadowy realm of El Paso del Norte. Alternating chapters between Nena's past and Marta's present, Jaramillo braids the storylines together like a mal de ojo bracelet, seamlessly weaving in Spanish language terms and Mexican cultural touchstones such as pozole, rebozo, and el aquelarre. Jaramillo's atmospheric prose conjures the dusty El Paso of the past, and depictions of La Vista vibrate with colorful knots of waves, glowing indigo, maroon, and bright pink, yielding a wild spell, like yeast in the air. This riveting page-turner affirms the adage, Family stories teach us how to live. Family secrets teach us to kill parts of ourselves. Gripping and cinematic, the novel's worlds of El Paso past and present will bewitch and enrapture. COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. (Online Review) " Rezension(3): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 1, 2024 Two women must combine their magical powers and find a little girl lost to time and space in this moving novel about heritage and heartbreak. When Marta, a busy lawyer and mother of two, brings home her 93-year-old great aunt, she's not expecting to discover that she's a bruja. The elderly and eccentric Nena has La Vista, and is determined to convince her great-niece that it sings within her, too. Together, they can reach 1700s Mexico and locate a daughter left in a long-gone convent that once sheltered a witch coven, or aquelarre. How can Nena prove to a rational person that spells and portals are real when her own sisters never believed her? Switching perspectives between the past and present, Jaramillo's debut novel strikingly portrays a family's unrelenting love and survival across borders, generations, and adversity with vivid descriptions of El Paso, Juarez, and the supernatural. Fans of Isabel Ca�as, Zoraida C�rdova, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia who enjoy historical fiction and subtle fantasy will devour this book. COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): " Publisher's Weekly : October 21, 2024 A middle-aged woman comes to terms with the magic harnessed by her great-aunt in this spirited gothic debut novel from Jaramillo ( The Doctor’s Wife , a story collection). As a wife, mother, and high-powered lawyer, Marta is distracted by the need to care for her late grandmother’s 93-year-old sister, Nena, who now lives alone but was institutionalized as a teenager, after she claimed to have time-traveled to an 18th-century convent. In a parallel narrative, the reader learns Nena’s claim was true, and that she was summoned by witches disguised as nuns. The witches teach Nena how to harness the spirit of La Vista, a powerful force derived from nature. After she falls in love with Emiliano, the brother of one of the sisters, she uses the power to heal him from smallpox. Then Emiliano gets her pregnant, and after giving birth to a girl, the sisters send her back to her old life without the baby. Marta’s story is less developed, and the conclusion feels rushed, but Jaramillo evocatively portrays the ways in which she and Nena gain strength from the land and their family. It’s an inspired effort. Agent: Kent Wolf, Neon Literary."

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