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The Haunting of Alejandra (2023)

2023 · V. Castro · 272 p. · United States of America

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Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she never knew. 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. Because the crying woman was with them, too. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness. But Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. 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.

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Une proposition de 2023 centrée sur dark, emotional et Fantasy. Réalisée par V. Castro.

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  1. 1976
    Interview with the Vampire
  2. 1996
    Exquisite Corpse
  3. 2001
    Coraline
  4. 2012
    The Drowning Girl
  5. 2013
    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
  6. 2023
    The Haunting of Alejandra

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