![]() Though Feliciana is in mourning, Paloma’s death is in some ways an afterthought, a kind of inevitability in a culture predicated on violence against women. ![]() As the two women interact, it becomes clear that Zoe is also in need of her own healing.Īs Feliciana warns in its early pages, the novel is not really about Paloma’s murder. Feliciana uses local mushrooms containing psilocybin to perform healing ceremonies on those suffering from various illnesses, both physical and emotional. Zoe is dispatched to interview Feliciana after the murder of Feliciana’s cousin Paloma, who identified as Muzhe, a third gender within Zapotec culture. Brenda Lozano’s Witches, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, tells the story of the lives of two Mexican women: Feliciana, an aging curandera, or folk healer, living in a small rural village in Oaxaca who has gained an international reputation, and Zoe, a young journalist from Mexico City. ![]()
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