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Belcalis shakes her head. “I don’t want you to be sorry,” she says. “I want you to keep the memory of my scars. I need someone to remember what happened to me. I need someone to—” I rush to her and gather her in my arms. “I won’t forget,” I promise her. “I’ll never forget.”
Something I didn’t know was clenched inside me releases. My friends are coming to Ixa’s rescue. They’re protecting him for me.
At its heart, the book is an examination of patriarchy. How does it form? What supports it? How do women survive under it? And what about men or people who don’t fall into the binary? Who thrives and who doesn’t?
