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Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and
misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality
with this fiercely imaginative debut.20The first witch of the
waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her
Maria.21Set against the tropics and megacities of the
Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures,
tarot, and the porous borders between life and death.
Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who
inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their
desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in
20Brujer#237a for Beginners21 reminds us: 20There17s
always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won17t always
know what it is until payment is due.21 This commitment
drives the disturbingly faithful widow in 20Tijuca,21 who
promises to bury her husband17s head in the rich dirt of the

jungle, and the sisters in 20Moksha,21 who are tempted by a
sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol.But magic
isn17t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly
elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive
pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in 20Tunnels,21
and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected sabertoothed
tiger in 20Burial.21 A colorful catalog of gallery
exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in 20Art Show,21
including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red
pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid
Peacocks.Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female
intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella,
20Maria, Maria2113a tropigoth family drama set in a
reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of
three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush
it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an
ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction. 18
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