Bless Me, Ultima (Hardcover)

from BrianStone

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya is a book about a young boy named Antonio, and how he tries to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. He lives in the 1940s in a small town in New Mexico when a curandera, Ultima, comes to live with him and his family.ONce Ultima and Antonio shared more...

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I received this book for free from a goodreads giveaway. I am so glad I did. I don't think I would have found this book on my own. It was a great story of a young boy learning his way. Is he to be the farmer and priest his mother wants or a man born to wonder like his father? Then an elder, Ulitm...

from bookworm12

Antonio is a young Mexican American boy living with his family in New Mexico. At the beginning of the novel the local healer, Ultima, moves in with his family. Ultima was the midwife who helped bring Antonio into the world and he feels particularly close to her. He is the youngest child in his fa...

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I received this book for free from a goodreads giveaway. I am so glad I did. I don't think I would have found this book on my own. It was a great story of a young boy learning his way. Is he to be the farmer and priest his mother wants or a man born to wonder like his father? Then an elder, Ulitm...

from kslade

Excellent novel that combines New Mexican myths and Catholic religion. It's a coming-of-age story about Antonio and his family and a healing woman or shaman named Ultima. I can see why it has been banned before because it has some adult situations and treats Catholicism kind of lightly. Still it ...