The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez
by Felicia Martínez
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Pub Date Feb 28 2025 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
This is a story of many voices, many lives, and all of them are hers.
In one life, Altagracia Sanchez is just another teenager longing to go to college In another, she is an adult with a thriving architecture career. In all lives, she hears voices, sees visions, and can't stop washing her hands. What kind of future can she possibly hope for? From the music-filled rooms of her childhood home in New Mexico, to the cold realities of college-life for someone not quite like everyone else, Altagracia's story is a time-bending family drama full of so much possibility.
The lives that come to Altagracia slide in and out of memory, out of time. Where did the demon come from? And who is her doppelgänger? Oh, and Benny. No one else seems to know he's there. With so many intertwining moments all around her, so many voices, can you blame her for learning to mask herself, for seeking solitude? But why won't she answer the phone? As the everyday mingles with the extraordinary, Altagracia finds a life beyond what anyone could have hoped for her. And then one or two more. What does it matter if some of them are ones only she can see?
Advance Praise
A paradoxical mechanism constructed of abstract formality and sheer lyricism.
-William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, The Peripheral, and Agency
The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez is a story that flows and glimmers like music, enchanting by the force of its exquisitely crafted prose and rhythm. The story moves to its own dreamlike logic through time and space, and draws the reader intimately into the life/lives of a person and a family. Compelling and utterly original.
-Maria Haskins, Ignyte and Aurora award nominated reviewer and writer of speculative fiction
The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez is a lush, lyrical tapestry of a story-of life with mental illness; of music and art and language; of the ways time and memory can loop back on themselves and be transformed in their re-seeing; of a portrait of a family with love at its core. It's captivating and genre-defying, and it sings like a symphony.
-P. H. Low, Locus- and Rhysling-nominated author of These Deathless Shores
In The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez, Martínez tells my favorite kind of story: one lightly anchored, realities expertly interleaved from one time and place and with another, until they blur into one complete pleasure and certainty.
-E. Catherine Tobler, editor The Deadlands
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