I open this review with the final paragraph of Pérez's text and will double back: “Writing with the crooked lines of our lives against the grain of dominating cultures is a serpentine journey of embodied, increasingly aware, spiritualized being. It is a multiply sourced feeling-sensing-thinking-being of constant growth and fluidity that seeks to make harmonious connections across time and space, across cultures and geographies, across the span of the living and the disincarnate, in search of deeper truths…that will allow us to recapture the power and energy necessary to transform self, humanity, and society for the greater good” (209). It is her articulation of a serpentine, crooked journey that I find most compelling, where, instead of a rigid path, we may follow the bends and folds of the pattern formed by the snake’s belly. Coiling to bite the tail, I resume at the opening.

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