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WOMAN OF LIGHT
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina
In WOMAN IN LIGHT, Kali merges two multi-generational storylines, creating a novel of family love, secrets, and survival. With her immense capacity to render characters and paint vivid life, WOMAN OF LIGHT is full of the weight, richness, and complexities of mixed race families and the ground on which they've always lived, set against the Sange de Cristo mountains in Colorado.
Family history is the basis of this story the magic comes in the author's gorgeous writing and how she spins it, in her beautiful, well-researched tale. The novel takes place between 1890 and 1935, and similar to her other works, Fajardo-Anstine uses family archives, newspapers, books, first-person accounts, archives, museum visits, and more to craft an accurate accounting of history.
1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of a gully, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidres fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show.
1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader, and Diego is a snake charmer. One day, a pale-faced woman in white fur asks Luz for a reading, calling her by a name that only her brother knows. Later that night at a party downtown, Luz sees Diego dancing with this pale-faced woman, which results in a brawl with the local white supremacist group. Diego leaves town for cover and Luz is left trying to get justice for her brother and family.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is from Denver, Colorado. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. Kali has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Hub City Press. She received her MFA from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country, from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida. Fajardo-Anstine has been interviewed by Pen America, Bomb Magazine, Bustle, Lit Hub, and Electric Literature. Her virtual events and writing workshops have sold out almost immediately.
Family history is the basis of this story the magic comes in the author's gorgeous writing and how she spins it, in her beautiful, well-researched tale. The novel takes place between 1890 and 1935, and similar to her other works, Fajardo-Anstine uses family archives, newspapers, books, first-person accounts, archives, museum visits, and more to craft an accurate accounting of history.
1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of a gully, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidres fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show.
1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader, and Diego is a snake charmer. One day, a pale-faced woman in white fur asks Luz for a reading, calling her by a name that only her brother knows. Later that night at a party downtown, Luz sees Diego dancing with this pale-faced woman, which results in a brawl with the local white supremacist group. Diego leaves town for cover and Luz is left trying to get justice for her brother and family.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is from Denver, Colorado. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. Kali has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Hub City Press. She received her MFA from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country, from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida. Fajardo-Anstine has been interviewed by Pen America, Bomb Magazine, Bustle, Lit Hub, and Electric Literature. Her virtual events and writing workshops have sold out almost immediately.
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