“The first of the Jimmy Paz novels, before he knows his mother is into Santeria. This concerns African "black magic," which an anthropologists describes as simply a deep understanding of a technology that early humans perfected, and that has been lost to "modern science," but is no less real. A brilliant black poet/dramatist, raised by white liberals, feels inauthentic until he goes to Africa and becomes a shaman. To get full powers, he must kill four pregnant women and eat their babies...”

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