To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. ”- Paste (Most Anticipated Horror Novels of 2023)Īlejandra no longer knows who she is.

“Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might be her most powerful book yet.

story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” ( Library Journal, starred review). 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.A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.īut 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 never knew. 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. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive.

The haunting of alejandra by v castro