TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lozano,Brenda
AU  - Cleary,Heather
TI  - Witches: a novel 
SN  - 9781646220687
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Catapult
KW  - Women healers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Women
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Witch fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma; Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. 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. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two women's lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. 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
ER  -