![]() ![]() For most of the novel, the trauma is associated with the men the land has literally taken from them. Now, they can die if they refuse to grow flowers in the land because then the flowers will just grow inside them and they can die if they try to leave La Pradera.Įstrella and her cousins are heirs to the generational trauma born out of a history of displacement and dispossession. The Nomeolvides women ended up at La Pradera after being chased out of other places having been accused of witchcraft and of making men disappear. Generations of Nomeolvides women live in La Pradera, a land that, although owned by the white and affluent Briar family, has its own powers and resentments. ![]() ![]() The Nomeolvides women grow flowers by digging their hands into the earth and allowing the magic inside them to pour out making gardens of the land around them. “Every woman in this house had inherited it, the same way they had inherited the loss and the broken hearts written into their blood” -Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild BeautyĮstrella Nomeolvides refers to her and/or her family as being poison ten times throughout the novel. ![]()
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