![]() ![]() She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers-and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.īut Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors.īecause the crying woman was with them, too. A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror. ![]() When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she only recently rediscovered. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. ![]() She was seeing things and didn’t know if anyone would believe her. Her soul felt so dim, the slightest shift of wind or breath might snuff it out. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Castro Alejandra didn’t know how to articulate that she would rather die than experience another day in her current existence, as herself. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. The story of a woman haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel from the author of Alien: Vasquez.Īlejandra no longer knows who she is. ![]()
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