Mujer de Luz / Woman of Light - Fajardo-Anstine, Kali
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"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, 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 Pidre's 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…mehr

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"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, 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 Pidre's 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. Merging two multi-generational storylines in Colorado, this is a novel of family love, secrets, and survival. With Fajardo-Anstine's immense capacity to render characters and paint vivid life, set against the Sange de Cristo mountians, Woman of Light is full of the weight, richness, and complexities of mixed blood and mica clay. It delights like an Old Western, and inspires the hope embedded in histories yet-told"--]cProvided by publisher.
Autorenporträt
Kali Fajardo-Anstine es originaria de Denver, Colorado. Es autora de Sabrina y Corina, libro finalista del National Book Award, del PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize, del LaVerne Harrell Fiction Prize, del Story Prize, del Saroyan Prize y ganador de un American Book Award. También fue galardonada con el Addison M. Metcalf Award por la American Academy of Arts and Letters. Su obra ha sido reconocida con el Denver Mayor's Global Award for Excellence in Arts & Culture y el Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Award. Ha escrito para el New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Oprah Daily, The American Scholar, Boston Review, entre otros, y ha recibido becas de MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook y Tin House. Recibió su MFA en la Universidad de Wyoming y trabajó más de una década como librera independiente en Westside Books, en el norte de Denver. Ha vivido por todo el país, desde Durnago, Colorado, hasta Key West, Florida, y fue invitada a impartir la 2022–23 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing en la Universidad Estatal de Texas. 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.