ASIN: B0078W3FA0
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 354
In the fanatical Catholic village of Madrid, New Mexico 11-year-old Salia is dragged by her mother and grandmother to stumble in their dark magical footsteps. Her family turns into fireballs and travels by the spark of a flame to race across the sky like shooting stars. Witch lights the villagers call these illuminations.There is a portrait in the house at the bottom of Witch Hill. Salia looks out of the picture with haunted eyes. She is pale because her mother pinches her arm, but Salia's grandmother dominates the picture. She is 110 years old but appears to be a teenager, proudly holding out in her hand an ordinary-looking rock, a rare shape-shifting stone, allowing her to bathe like in the fountain of youth, to be immortal while others around her age.Salia is a half-breed, living on the fringes of society with only coyotes as friends until she meets Marcelina a Catholic girl whose ...
