Cometierra, Dolores Reyes

Cometierra says:
"I lay on the ground, my eyes closed. I had learned that shapes emerged from that darkness. I tried to see them and to think of nothing else, not even the pain that came from my stomach. Nothing, except a gleam that I watched intently until it transformed into two black eyes. And little by little, as if the night had created her, I saw María's face, her shoulders, her hair emerging from the deepest darkness I had ever seen."
When she was a child, Cometierra swallowed dirt and knew in a vision that her father had beaten her mother to death. That was only the first of her visions. Being born with a gift implies a responsibility to others, and Cometierra was given one that makes her life doubly difficult, because she lives in a neighborhood where violence, helplessness, and injustice erupt in every corner, and where the main victims are women. In the pursuit of truth, in the discovery of love, in the care between siblings, Cometierra will find her own path.
Dolores Reyes has written a terrible and luminous, lyrical, sweet, and brutal first novel, narrated with a voice that moves us from the first page.