![]() ![]() ![]() In certain tellings, La Llorona snatches wayward children and pulls them into the water-surrogate youngsters to keep her company in her restless, mournful existence, an aspect of the tale used to warn kids not to stray too far from their homes. Castro weaves the folklore tale of La Llorona into the proceedings as well, with healthy doses of history, psychology, curandera practices, and the horrors faced every day by women in domestic settings.įor those unfamiliar, the story of La Llorona, like so many urban/rural legends, has many variations, but it almost always features a woman either suspected or guilty of drowning her children who takes her own life and spends eternity as a spirit wandering riverbanks and other watery areas, wailing for her lost offspring. Castro creates a beautiful hybrid of Stephen King’s It and the Disney film Encanto, in that the book features an unknowably old, maybe interstellar creature and it explores multi-generational trauma with a compass pointing toward forgiveness and self-actualization. For her latest novel, The Haunting of Alejandra ( Penguin Random House), author V. ![]()
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