Excerpt from Hunger’s Brides...“From the moment I was first illuminated by the light of reason, my inclination toward letters has been so vehement that not even the admonitions of others . . . nor my own meditations have been sufficient to cause me to forswear this natural impulse that God placed in me . . . that inclination exploded in me like gunpowder. . .”
—Sor Juana, in a letter of self-defence written to a bishop in 1691, just before she took a vow of silence
This novel is 1,360 pages long. But it's not all narrative fiction. It also contains poetry, dramatic plays, letters and margin notes. Random House states that Hunger's Bride draws "on chronicles of the conquest and histories of the Inquisition, myth cycles and archeological studies, ancient poetry and early Spanish accounts of blood sacrifice, Hunger’s Brides is a mammoth work of inspired historical fiction framed in a contemporary mystery... Hunger’s Brides is also a dramatic unveiling of three intimate journeys: a man’s forced march to self-knowledge, a great poet’s withdrawal from the world, and a profane mystic’s pilgrimage into modern Mexico, where the present is all-too-visibly built on the ruins of the vanquished."
The story's premise revolves around a grad student and a professor's quest to solve the mystery of Sor Juana. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was the 17th-century Mexican poet and nun who signed her vow of silence in her own blood.
Writing to see what the end's gon' be,
Dee
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