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Ángela Hernández
Ángela Hernández (Jarabacoa, 1954) is a Dominican writer, painter, and photographer based in Santo Domingo. She is the author of the novels Mudanza de los sentidos (2000; Movement of Meanings), Charamicos (2003; Twigs), and Leona, o la fiera vida (2019; Leona), as well as the short-story collections Alótropos (1989; Allotropes), Masticar una rosa (1993; To Chew a Rose), Piedra de sacrificio (1997; Sacrifice Stone), and La secta del crisantemo (2012; The Chrysanthemum Cult). In 2016, she was awarded the Dominican Republic’s National Prize for Literature.
The following excerpt includes the entirety of the eighteenth chapter in a novel of twenty-one and signals a point of inflection in the storyline. The streaming unconscious of this dream fully captures the protagonist Leona’s essence, as she weighs all that has happened to her, to her family, her beloved friend Emilio, her town, Quima, and to her country, which is about to go to war.