Outside the Bones: A NovelLyn Di Iorio
Arte Publico Pr, September 2011
ISBN: 978-1558857032
This spellbinding debut novel combines Afro-Caribbean witchcraft with a dark, unsolved mystery.
Fina Mata is a loud, outspoken young woman living on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Fina is also a practicing bruja, a self described "spirit worker," who after the breakup of her marriage begins to take her gifts more seriously.
When Fina casts a few spells in an attempt to win the heart of Chico, the sexy trumpet player who lives in her apartment building, and to get rid of her competition, she becomes enmeshed in an intricate web of intrigue and murder.
Lyn Di Iorio's debut novel is an intelligent, fast-paced read, packed with adventure. Set in New York and Puerto Rico, Outside the Bones combines the exoticism of Afro-Caribbean witchcraft with a love story outside the boundaries of the expected and the ordinary.
LYN DI IORIO grew up in Puerto Rico and came to the Mainland to attend Harvard University, from which she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She received her master's degree from Stanford University's Creative Writing Program and her doctorate in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches literature and creative writing at The City College of New York and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also the author of scholarly books on Latino literature. Outside the Bones was named BEST DEBUT NOVEL by a Latino writer on the 2011 Latinidad Best Books list.
ISBN: 978-1558857032; ISBN10: 1558857036; Imprint: Arte Publico Pr; On Sale: 9/30/2011; Format: Paperback; Pages: 208; $16.95
