Pre-order from Del Rey Books Now Available:įrom the lauded author of The Queen of the Cicadas (which picked up starred reviews from PW, Kirkus and Booklist who called her “a dynamic and innovative voice”) comes a short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions focused on the Chicana experience.
She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers-and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.īut Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. Because the crying woman was with them, too. As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she never knew.
In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel.Īlejandra no longer knows who she is.
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