Release date: May 10, 2021
Raven Chronicles Press is giving away 10 signed copies of the new edition of Spirits of the Ordinary with a foreword by Rigoberto González.
Set in northern Mexico in the 1870s, Spirits of the Ordinary tells interweaving stories centered on Zacarìas Carabajal, who leaves his comfortable cit Set in northern Mexico in the 1870s, Spirits of the Ordinary tells interweaving stories centered on Zacarìas Carabajal, who leaves his comfortable city home to prospect for gold in the wilderness while his abandoned wife, Estela, struggles to build a new life.
Visions, dreams, and portents are part of the everyday world of Spirits of the Ordinary. Estela s siblings, the enigmatic and supernaturally beautiful twins Manzana and Membrillo, discover their gift for water divining. Zacarìas s mother, Mariana, has been silent all her adult life after experiencing an apocalyptic vision of angels in her teens. His father, Julio, is an apothecary devote