My Mother in Havana (eBook)

A Memoir of Magic & Miracle

Rebe Huntman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
317 Seiten
Monkfish Book Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-958972-56-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A daughters search for her deceased mother brings her face to face with the gods, ghosts, and saints of Cuba.My Mother in Havanaliftsthe veil between the living and the dead and makes believers of us all. This story of a mother's absence and a daughter's need is written with a lyricism that filled my heart with beauty while also making it ache for loved ones lost. This is a stunning debut.LeeMartin, author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Bright ForeverI closed this book believing more than ever that the people we love, including the people wevebeen, never really leave us.Maggie Smith, New York Timesbestselling author of You Could Make This Place BeautifulWriting with a physicality of language that moves like the body in dance, Rebe Huntman, a poet, choreographer, and dancer, embarks on a pilgrimage into the mysteries of the gods and saints of Cuba and their larger spiritual view of the Mother. Huntman offers a window into the extraordinary world of Afro-Cuban gods and ghosts and the dances and rituals that call them forth. As she explores the memory of her own mother, interlacing it with her search for the sacred feminine, Huntman leads us into a world of sance and sacrifice, pilgrimage and sacred dance, which resurrect her mother and bring Huntman face to face with a larger version of herself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: Afro-Cuban religion • animal sacrifice • Apolonia • Black Madonna • boveda • Callejón de Hamel • Coco al muerto • Cuba • Cuban dance • Divine Feminine • El Cobre grief • Folk Catholicism • Juan Moreno • Latin Dance • Mediumship • Motherhood • motherless daughters • Ochún • Orishas • Oshun • Our Lady of Charity Nuestra Señora Spiritism • Oxum • Pilgrimage • Regla • Sacred Dance • sacred feminine • Santería Ancestor worship • Santiago de Cuba priestess mother saints • Séance • talk with ancestors
• ISBN-10: 1-958972-56-8 / 1958972568
• ISBN-13: 978-1-958972-56-4 / 9781958972564