![]() Its main character, Antonio “Tony” Marez, is almost 7 the summer when Ultima, an elderly curandera, or traditional Mexican healer, comes to live with his family. What she discovered was a sort of Mexican American “To Kill a Mockingbird.” ![]() Walton, an eco-entrepreneur and philanthropist, also had to overcome a nearly lethal bout of pneumonia.Īlthough “Bless Me, Ultima” is nominally a children’s or young adult book, Walton first read it as a wife and mother, in the late 1980s, at a female friend’s urging. Walton, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, in a 2005 plane crash. It includes her then-3-year-old son’s battle with Stage 4 cancer and the death of her husband, John T. The story of how Walton, a Hollywood outsider, set up a company for the sole purpose of producing this one film contains nearly as many dramatic twists as the book itself. ![]() But the novel gradually won out over the scolds and the censors. Over the years, a handful of school districts have banned the book because it deals with themes of witchcraft and contains snatches of strong language. ![]() And a time of standing up for identity and culture.” “There was art coming out, and music and literature all over the place,” Anaya said. ![]()
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