She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers-and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.But Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors.īecause the crying woman was with them, too.

When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family's history, starting with the biological mother she only recently rediscovered.

In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. Publisher: Titan Books Ltd ISBN: 9781803365619 Number of pages: 272 Dimensions: 198 x 130 mm You may also be interested in.The story of a woman haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel from the author of Alien: Vasquez.Īlejandra no longer knows who she is.

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