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>>The Mystery of Survival

ISBN: 0-927534-32-0
128 pp. | paper only | $12.00 

Alicia Gaspar de Alba

1994 Winner Premio Aztlán

These are stories about strong women: survivors that include professionals or professional whores, writers, educators, counselors and curanderas, the bewitched and the bewitchers. The title story and its description of the sexual abuse of a young girl by her stepfather will make it clear that this work treats outrages as well as mysteries, and the reader will come to learn that a part of surviving is to begin to understand outrageous humanity. Two stories are in Spanish.