The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
by Lorraine Avila
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Pub Date Apr 11 2023 | Archive Date Mar 11 2023
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Description
Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an “UPPERCUT to the senses.” We couldn’t agree more. We have never encountered an author with prose of this sensitivity and fire.
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She’s starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Jose, a senior boy she’s getting to know. She’s confident her initiation into her family’s bruja tradition will happen soon.
But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes are off. And Yolanda’s initiation begins with a series of troubling visions of the violence this boy threatens. How can Yolanda protect her community, in a world that doesn’t listen? Only with the wisdom and love of her family, friends, and community – and the Brujas Diosas, her ancestors and guides.
The Making of Yolanda La Bruja is the book this country, struggling with the plague of gun violence, so desperately needs, but which few could write. Here Lorraine Avila brings a story born from the intersection of race, justice, education, and spirituality that will capture readers everywhere.
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781646142439 |
PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 384 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Thank you so much to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this incredible book early! This is a story of justice and sovereignty and anger and faith, and I couldn’t put it down. It takes significant talent to take real systemic issues and translate them into a magical realist, fantasy world so that we, the readers, may better understand. But Avila does just that with Yolanda. Yolanda is an incredible character. She is a girl who was forced to grow up too fast and become strong too soon. But it is her strength, and the strength of her love for those around her, that helps her in the end. While the magic remains within the pages of this story, so much of it relates to the real-world experiences of girls, and people, just like Yolanda, and it is for this reason, that this book should have a place on everyone’s required reading list. Absolutely fantastic.