A cross between Perfume and The Secret History, Curandera explores the darker elements of shamanism, desire and friendship. In the mountainous town of Gethsemane, a mysterious woman's arrival sparks a
Featuring historic photos of the Chicano Movement in San Antonio and a new introduction, this is the 30th-anniversary edition of Carmen Tafolla’s first solo poetry collection. Having filled a cultural
"Once there was a little girl named Clara, who was grumpy." She was grumpy about having to take out the trash, having to share her toys with her seven brothers and sisters, and having to read one book
"An autobiographical account of how a psychiatric nurse specialist became a folk medicine healer; this also explains the origins and practice of one of the oldest forms of medicine in the New World."?
“The world is full of sorrow,” Agapita whispered to Alfonso.Did she stamp those words into his destiny?The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita deliver
Being taught the ways of the mystical powers of the curandera by a wise old woman, three fourteen-year-old girls delight in using their new magic, until Xochitl becomes jealous and begins to doubt the
