La Bloga: Review: The Scorpion’s Tail by Sylvia Torti

“”After we told our stories we huddled over a map of the world and we saw that Chiapas was like a scorpion’s tail at the bottom of Mexico. We understood that we had the power to whip around and sting those who had been stepping on us for so long.” (88)

This is Chan Nah K’in’s adolescent fantasy as she grows into a Zapatista warrior woman, ready to take on the Mexican Army and win back her forest home.”

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