When a Woman Rises by Christine Eber

Author:Christine Eber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 2019-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

It might have been nice for Ricardo if he had married a rich woman from El Norte, but as it turned out he married a girl he met in Pantelhó when he went there to sell cabbages. Soon after he returned from Cancún, Ricardo asked my parents for some of his inheritance, and on that land he planted cabbages. He had heard that there was a big demand for cabbages in Pantelhó, so he took his harvest to the market there.

But when he got off the truck with all his costales, he saw that the market was filled with vendors selling cabbages. He didn’t have any choice but to try to sell his crop, so he sat there all day in the hot sun trying to sell, but only a few people bought any of his cabbages.

Bad luck seemed to follow my brother wherever he went. But that day God must have wanted to make up for all of Ricardo’s past suffering, because the girl who would become his wife came over to where he was sitting and bought cabbages from him. After she bought two cabbages in the morning, she came back later in the day to buy two more and this time she brought him a glass of atole from her mother’s stand.

I think my brother fell in love with her because of that glass of atole. She must have looked like an angel to him, because he was hungry and thirsty and needed to save the little money he had made from selling cabbages to pay his passage back to Lokan.

It took a few months for Ricardo to make money to buy the gifts for joyol, but eventually that woman, Marcela, became my sister-in-law. Marcela’s parents were happy to have Ricardo as their son-in-law, and my parents were relieved not to have to go through another rejection.

Now my brother and his wife live on land on the other side of Lokan, just beyond the Zapatista co-op store. In many ways my sister-in-law reminds me of how Lucia might be if she were here with us now. Marcela is intelligent and knows a lot about how to use plants to cure different sicknesses. When she comes to visit, I feel as if little bit of Lucia has come with her. I always laugh a lot when Marcela is in my house, like I used to do when Lucia visited.

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