Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Ta̕ Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
When Ta̕ Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tia Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
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