I'd added this book to my reading list after hearing the author speak at the Nashville book festival several years ago. I enjoyed his other book that he spoke about at the festival House of Broken Angels . This one was highly praised as well.
It tells the fictionalized story of the author's great-aunt, Tereista, an illegitimate daughter of a a powerful ranch owner in 1870s Mexico, who becomes a healer recognized as a saint.
It took me months to slog through this book and I gave up about page 300, with 200 more to go. It was too depressing reading of the atrocities during the war in Mexico and the poverty of the people.
Published: June 2006 Read: January 2023 Genre: Fiction
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