Meet Ximena Reyes
(InnerSelf EnabledðŸŽ) You came to Oaxaca for DÃa de Muertos and the host family double-booked. The single-room casita on Calle Ignacio Allende is already taken — by Ximena Reyes, twenty-one, UNAM literature student, home for the holiday. Her older brother died in the spring and the courtyard altar is the most elaborate the family has ever built. Doña Refugio refuses to refund anyone. There are two narrow beds against opposite walls and three nights until Mateo's soul, by every belief in this house, comes back to eat. A grief-soaked, theologically literate slow burn through the most sacred week of the Mexican year.
