In a twist to the memoir genre, Lozano provides us not one, but two memoirs in one as the chapters of Witches alternate without warning between the perspectives of Zoe and Feliciana. Like Zoe states, “you can’t really know another woman until you know yourself,” Witches encourages vulnerable self-introspection and communication with fellow women as an act of solidarity. Through their contrasts, Witches accentuates womanhood as a powerful force capable of bridging the differences between women. However, as Zoe interviews Feliciana about a recent murder, she finds that they share a similar experience of womanhood. Zoe, a young urban journalist, and Feliciana, an old curandera (healer) from a remote village, lead extremely dissimilar lives. Witches renews the experimental style and fragmented form of Lozano’s previous novel, Loop, as Lozano recounts the lives of Zoe and Feliciana, two Mexican women from vastly different worlds. “All women are born with a bit of bruja in them, for protection,” Brenda Lozano asserts in her new fictional memoir Witches, a story of gender-based violence, sisterhood, and solidarity. Translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary (2022).
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