Filed Under: [ Art y Culture ] [ Hispanic News ]
Tags: aztec, blog, Mexico
Knowledge is Power!
“This week, Im happy to feature work from a small independent press, Juan Bleas outstanding and totally fun novel, Butterfly Warrior, from Santa Fe New Mexicos Sherman Asher Publishing.
Debut novelist Blea has a reader wondering what Butterfly Warrior is all about, with an opening chapter featuring Manny Lopez, morosely drunk, hallucinating, and contemplating suicide. Poor Manny. He lives for his music but his stiff fingers refuse to let him play guitar like he used to. His wife has left him, but it is Anna he really yearns for. Anna’s ankle bears the same butterfly tattoo incised above Manny’s heart. Manny feels abandoned by the virgin, his mothers religion, and worst of all, abandoned by his butterfly spirit. Izpapalotl, Manny believes, is an Aztec diety who “protected the souls of warriors killed in battle who returned to the earth as butterflies.””
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