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Fiction · Coming of age

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya
1972 · 277 pages

Ultima, a folk healer, joins Antonio's family in wartime New Mexico, and the boy is pulled between his mother's church and his father's plains. Schools have taught it and banned it ever since.

★ 6.0