Bougainvillea

When Faye left Mexico after the death of her son and the slow unraveling of her marriage, she thought she'd left her painful past behind. But when she returns to care for her elderly mother-in-law, old memories resurge with a vengeance and manifest in debilitating, chronic pain. Soon she becomes dependent on a healer whose incantations and medicinal plants cause her to hallucinate and relive past traumas.

Luzma—a timid, cautious, devout Catholic—knows her role: obedient wife and doting mothe...