![]() 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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