Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
"A curandera comes to stay, and a boy's world splits between miracle and myth."
New Mexico, 1940s: when the healer Ultima arrives at six-year-old Antonio's home, she brings the old knowledge — herbs, spirits, the llano's deep magic — and awakens questions his Catholic upbringing can't answer. Anaya's masterpiece is the foundational novel of Chicano literature: tender, mystical and quietly monumental.
Worth knowing
The cornerstone of the Chicano literary movement — one of the most taught (and most challenged) American novels; adapted to film in 2013.
