![]() I have had a serious, serious fascination with the La Llorona folk tale ever since I stumbled upon it in an American folklore book in elementary school. Review: Thank you to NetGalley for sending me an eARC of this novel! ![]() 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. 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.īecause the crying woman was with them, too. 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. ![]() Where You Can Get This Book: WorldCat | Amazon | Indieboundīook Description: Alejandra no longer knows who she is. Where Did I Get This Book: I received an eARC from NetGalley. ![]()
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