Book description
"The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria."
Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who…
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1 author picked Maria, Maria as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love Marytza K. Rubio’s supernatural imagination in this collection of stories and admire how strong women hold all of their worlds together.
The self-titled novella Maria, follows the fate of three women making sense of their legacies and supernatural abilities in a reimagined California rainforest, shifting time and perspective.
The opening story ‘Brujeria for Beginners’ Rubio includes instructions for what Rubio calls spiritual vigilantism or expedited karma. In ‘Carlos Across Time and Space,’ the narrator pictures a different death for a senselessly murdered young man at a high school graduation party.
Rubio’s stories are wildly creative and often…
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