This story of feminist mythology asks: “What if it is not the whole story?”
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I saw a Publish on the sons earlier this year That said, each bookish girl has experienced a Greek mythology, a Tudor dynasty or an era of Egyptology in their youth. Not to boast, but I went three for three, baby! Then I made these phases a lifetime commitment. Between podcasts, documentaries and books, I generally have a lot of options to satisfy these obsessions. Greek mythology in particular has a moment in books for several years now, so much so that there are more outings that come out each year that I cannot follow.
But there is an author and an expert in mythology, I will always take the time to read, whatever the other. In this release in 2022, she wrote my personal cat: a novel that takes the famous story of a woman decried and asks: “What if it is not the whole story?”
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Imagine it: The United States, January 2020. A book with a pretty blue and white blanket made the rounds on the Internet Bookish. Blue ink forms a beautiful hummingbird pattern on a creamy background, a bird associated with the solar god Huitzilopochtli in Aztec mythology. Black barbed wire, both delicate and threatening, cuts the motif into a grid resembling an arrangement of the Talavera tiles. The whole is catchy, ostensibly Mexican in sensation and evocative of the borders and the experience of migrants.
The book tells the story of a bookstore owner in Acapulco, Mexico, who is forced to flee his house when a cartel of drugs assassinates everyone in his family, with the exception of his young son in a quinceañera. She and the boy are forced to become migrants and embark on a treacherous journey north towards the American border, to escape the cartel and to befriend the other migrants along the way. The book is praised not only as the “IT” book of the season, but as THE History of immigration. He obtains the treatment of Oprah and is rented by everyone from Salma Hayek to the Grande Sandra Cisneros, who called him “The great novel by Las American.“”
