Sep 28

Sep 28 We Need No Wings & Book Mail

Thank you Source Landmark for this gifted copy.

I have found myself completely immersed within this emotional, vibrant and captivating story from the very beginning. Plus, I can’t get over how much I am learning! I had no idea where the roots of magical realism lied nor what actually defines magical realism within a story.

And Tere’s character is the type of real woman I live for in stories. She is witty, humorous, brilliant, dealing with massive change later in her life, and is showing the kind of resilience that makes me as a reader want to jump into this story of discovery with her.

✔️𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁:

Working through grief
Magical Realism
Atmosphere
Family history
History
Travel
Symbolism

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Tere Sanchez has always known who she was: a professor, a wife, a mother, and a friend. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, she finds herself completely broken. Taking a leave from the university, Tere hopes that she can mourn her husband and get back on her feet, but instead, she spends a year consumed by grief.

Until the day she levitates.

Suddenly, Tere’s life is thrown into disarray, and the repeated incidents of levitation not only make her question her sanity, but also put her in danger. She decides she will do anything to stop them. So when she’s reminded that her family is related to the renowned levitating mystic, Saint Teresa of Avila, she leaves the refuge of her home and travels to Spain, hoping to find answers. But Saints can be elusive, and not all answers are easily found. Tere will soon have to decide whether to remain shrouded in her grief, or open her heart to a world where we need no wings to fly…

From the award-winning author of The Storyteller’s Death comes a riveting, multicultural story about what it means to love, heal, and take flight.

💬𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀?