Growing up in Mexico City, Zoe attempts to find her way in a society straitjacketed by its hostile macho culture. In the tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional ways and traditional beliefs are a present reality, Feliciana tells the story of her life, her community's acceptance of her as a genuine curandera and the difficult choices faced by her joyful and spirited cousin Paloma who is both a healer and a Muxe - a trans woman. Weaving together two parallel narratives, Witches tells the story of Feliciana, an indigenous curandera or healer, and Zoe, a journalist: two women who meet through the murder of Feliciana's cousin Paloma. I came to understand that you can't really know another woman until you know yourself. I had wanted to get to know them, but I realised right away that the people I needed to know better were my sister Leandra and my mother.
This is the story of who Feliciana is, and of who Paloma was. A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin America today
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