Doctor Magdalena Ibarra is a Houston surgeon haunted by the tragic death of her parents in a fire. Burdened by the memory her father's sins, a doctor who betrayed the poor Mexican immigrants who trusted him, Magdalena desires forgetfulness.  While visiting in Mexico City, she gets lost in the gigantic Mercado de la Merced. She discovers a secret passage where miracles are sold: love, sleep, and oblivion.  Inflicted by vertigo, she loses consciousness and awakens in a strange place, the home of the La Doña del Olvido or Lady of Forgetfulness.  Is her journey real or hallucination? This postmodern allegory combines science fiction with history and challenges the reader to examine conventional history and reason through the lens of memory and desire.

Doctor Magdalena: Novella

Literature & Fiction

Villarreal, Rosa Martha

United States

Tqs Pubns

Fiction.Latino/a Studies. American archeologist Maria Elena Vazquez is excavating inside a Mayan pyramid when an earthquake strikes. She is rescued days later, physically unhurt, but unable to speak any language save an unknown ancient dialect. As time passes, she retreats into a world of dreams seemingly dominated by the spirit of Martin Cortes, bastard son of the conqueror of Mexico, Hernan Cortes, who has returned to wreak vengance on his torturers. Slowly, Maria Elena's dreams take shape in reality, uncovering an ancient Mayan legend and a wrenching Vazquez family secret. At once a ghost story, a romance, and a mystery, CHRONICLES OF AIR AND DREAMS is unique in its depiction of a modern Mexican-American family.

Chronicles of Air and Dreams

Archer Books

The tranquil fate of Lilia Cantú is torn apart when a drug lord rapes her and shames her into marriage. She later escapes to a small desert town on the Mexican/Texas border where it seems as if the past co-exists with the present, and a fortune-teller predicts she will fall in love three times. She becomes torn between two men---Javier San Andrés, a composer, and Miguel Treviño---who have a mysterious connection to Miguel’s near death by drowning years before. Part Science fiction, part historical romance, the story examines the relationship between desire, identity, and reality.

The Stillness of Love and Exile

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Doctor Magdalena Ibarra is a Houston surgeon haunted by the tragic death of her parents in a fire. Burdened by the memory of her father’s sins, a doctor who betrayed the poor Mexican immigrants who trusted him, Magdalena desires forgetfulness. While visiting in Mexico City, she gets lost in the gigantic Mercado de la Merced. She discovers a secret passage where miracles are sold: love, sleep, and oblivion. Inflicted by vertigo, she loses consciousness and awakens in a strange place, the home of the La Doña del Olvido or Lady of Forgetfulness. Is her journey real or hallucination? This postmodern allegory combines science fiction with history and challenges the reader to examine conventional history and reason through the lens of memory and desire.

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Doctor Magdalena: Novella

Chronicles of Air and Dreams

The Stillness of Love and Exile

Doctor Magdalena: Novella