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Penguin Vitae
Penguin Classics
March 2022
On Sale: March 15, 2022
Featuring: Tony
288 pages
ISBN: 0143137220
EAN: 9780143137221
Kindle: B006QBKIAY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Coming of Age
Although only six years old, Antonio Marez is perceptive beyond his years. He was brought into the world with the help of Ultima, a curandera, or folk healer, in touch with nature and the spirit world. Revered by some as a wisewoman but rebuked by others as a witch, Ultima has now come back to stay with Tony’s family in New Mexico. As Tony seeks out his destiny—torn between his mother’s farming forebears and his father’s wandering vaquero roots, between Spanish Catholicism and the gods of his indigenous ancestors—Ultima’s loving tutelage will help him navigate questions of life and death, good and evil, and reveal to him the vastness of the heritage that shapes him, in this pioneering work of literature.
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