![]() She left like a ghost and remained a ghost after multiple attempts across the years to find her. My grandmother abandoned my mother and her six children. One in particular I took from my own family history. There are many women across generations in the book and all have different experiences with motherhood. We also love to romanticize the story of motherhood and pregnancy. We love to tell the stories of hysterical, unhinged women because it fits into certain social narratives. But considering how old the tale is, I question where it originated. La Llorona is well known for the woman who murdered her children, then committed suicide, because she couldn’t have the man she wanted. ![]() And as I became a woman and had my own children, it scared the hell out of me every time I looked in the mirror. I have been both women, trapped by the stories I was told since childhood how to be, how to look, what should be important to me, and my place in the world. This was my approach to the story of La Llorona and telling the story of Alejandra. ![]() However, behind whatever we think we know lies the truth. So often in our lives we only see one dimension of a person or a story. ![]()
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