In the StorySan Isidro
In San Isidro, the Day of the Dead also awakens memories of those who might have survived. In 1910, Remedios Salvatierra prepares the altar, receives the portraits, and keeps the great family ledger. Every object must find its place. But this year’s accounts do not all describe the same absences. Some of the dead seem to have lived, elsewhere, a life their loved ones recognize.
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The priest’s seal had held all night, which said nothing about the photograph and a great deal about don Ernesto Villegas’s habits.Read the excerpt ↗