In her debut novella, Rios de la Luz examines the lives of a small family of water witches living near the US-Mexico border. Exploring issues of race and trauma along with beauty and magic, Itz??? is a powerful reclamation of body and identity. "Rios de la Luz is among the most important emerging writing of our time, or any time, because she is inventing a new language without limits that explodes all walls and borders meant to keep us small and quiet. Weaving fabula with domestic trauma and sexual becoming, Itz??? ...
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In her debut novella, Rios de la Luz examines the lives of a small family of water witches living near the US-Mexico border. Exploring issues of race and trauma along with beauty and magic, Itz??? is a powerful reclamation of body and identity. "Rios de la Luz is among the most important emerging writing of our time, or any time, because she is inventing a new language without limits that explodes all walls and borders meant to keep us small and quiet. Weaving fabula with domestic trauma and sexual becoming, Itz??? restories a girl's life and identity up and through the violence of a culture that cannot contain her. Like a new species facing off with death heads. Like myth rupturing the lies we are told about who we are. Like a Xicana gender fluid voice and body ready to rearrange your reality, gloriously and without apology." - Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and The Chronology of Water " Itz??? is full of magic, death, water, memories, beauty, and pain. This is a narrative about womanhood that's packed with blood and multiculturalism. This bilingual scream of resistencia is exactly what frontera fiction should be, and Rios de la Luz is a word bruja of the highest order." -- Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home "[Itz???] rejects the cultural clich??? of brown women's bodies as a site of pity and pain. Instead, Itz??? shows the ability for these women to flourish. Though the women are fictional, they have real potential to reach out to readers and say, "You are not alone; you deserve to exist." - World Literature Today " Itz??? is not censored, nor does it hold itself back. It follows generations of water witches, shifting through time and narration while doing so. The book itself is a difficult read-not only because of its subject matter, but also because the language is deliberately poetic. The narrative moves around, and with short chapters, the focus jumps from one anecdote to another in rapid succession. It's difficult to parse what is lyrical embellishment, what are fantastical elements, and what is 'real' to the story. But the result is wonderfully organic, beautiful, and heart-aching." - Book Riot
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