![]() ![]() She is filled with rage, and pain, and anger, and sadness and bashes against the walls of herself to fight to be seen. Every day, nearly every moment, of her life is a battle to find the light in an all-consuming darkness. Castro presents a journey through trauma that refuses to paint its picture clearly, and in the muddiness of it reveals the ultimate truth.Īlejandra, our titular main character, is messy. ![]() ![]() It is impossibly, gut-twistingly dark and blessedly, gratefully hopeful all at once. It is the tale of La Llorona, stretching back generations to reveal a battle between darkness and light that feels as old as time and humanity itself. It is a story steeped in darkness, dripping with pain and longing that can only bring its truth out through years of myth-building. Haunting of Alejandra feels like a book a part of me needed, right when I needed it, desperately trying to carve my way forward into my own brighter and more hopeful future. Castro’s Haunting of Alejandra, a novel built on honoring and moving on from a past that feels unshakeable. So it was a bit of a heart-wrenching surprise that my first book review of the year should get to be for V. Every day I wake up and make the choice to be better and stronger than the people and forces who have tried to break me. Things I have been forced to forgive that will never receive an apology. There are things back there I can’t remember, and things I don’t want to. I worry, sometimes, about being overtaken by my past. ![]()
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