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Knowledge is Power!
“What’s an honorable man to do when his illegitimate children force a father’s acknowledgement? In Don Tomas Urrea’s case, he abandons his wife and children in town and moves out to the rancho to be with the daughter and son he fathered out of sundry dalliances. When the daughter rises from the dead and commences healing the sick, Luis Alberto Urrea’s novel takes a wonderful turn from the merely interesting to the arrestingly bizarre.
Given the novel’s 499 pages, Urrea has the luxury of spinning out an elaborate set of circumstances and allowing the various forces to play out against one another. Teresita’s mean-hearted aunt brutalizes the child until Huila steps forth. The old india takes Teresa as a pupil, teaching her desert herbs, plant medicine, and indigenous philosophy. Urrea blends the story of the two curanderas with that of Teresa’s father Tomas and the engineer Lauro Aguirre. They are an ideal combination of leader and genius. Aguirre’s inventiveness makes the 1880s Mexican frontier desert bloom to agricultural richness. Don Tomas’ leadership wins friends with the Yaqui to ensure his remains a peaceful Eden.”
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