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SJCPL Online Book Group

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
2025-09-22 20:00:00 2025-09-22 20:45:00 America/New_York SJCPL Online Book Group This coming of age novel follows a young boy in New Mexico in the 1940s as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life. Main Library - Adult Virtual Programming Room

Monday, September 22
8:00pm - 8:45pm

Add to Calendar 2025-09-22 20:00:00 2025-09-22 20:45:00 America/New_York SJCPL Online Book Group This coming of age novel follows a young boy in New Mexico in the 1940s as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life. Main Library - Adult Virtual Programming Room

Main Library

Adult Virtual Programming Room

This coming of age novel follows a young boy in New Mexico in the 1940s as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life.

Set in the 1940s, Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world... and will nurture the birth of his soul.

Bless Me, Ultima is available in print, e-book and e-audiobook formats.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Literature & Writing | Language & Storytelling | Book Group |

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