Chloe Garcia Roberts

Chloe Garcia Roberts is the author of a book of poetry, The Reveal and translator of Li Shangyin’s Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes and Li Shangyin, the latest book in the NYRB Poets series. She lives in Boston and is managing editor for Harvard Review.

February 2019Fiction

Excerpt of Carne de Dios

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María Sabina was no stranger to thresholds, she saw invisible creatures, the sacred mushrooms spoke through her—with her voice.
Eva Aridjis and María Sabina ’83. Photo: Homero Aridjis.Towards the end of María Sabina’s life, Homero Aridjis and his wife Betty heard that she was ailing and arranged for her to be transported from her home to Mexico City to receive medical treatment and later to live with them for a time. This photograph of María Sabina and Eva Aridjis is from that period.

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