Outside the Bones

In the novel Outside of the Bones is written by a women name  Lyn Di Lorio. Di Lorino and the main Character are similar because they both are Puerto Rican that live in New York.  Midtown New York is were some parts of the book take place.The book speaks in first person point of view. I think this is Di Lorio memoir with a twist because she describing the main character to be her because they share the same culture and live in the same place. I see that Di Lorio shows off her culture by using some spanish words to describe a situation. For example on page 15, “Aurora’s breath crackled in his ears. You motherfucking hijo de puta chocha-lipped  cula-headed, carbon. I hope that Senator Ferrera and his thugs catch and feed you to the sharks off Pinones!”. It quotes shows that the author is sharing her language to her readers. Even though what she’s saying is bit harsh. In this part of the book was an argument with a guy the main character dating ex wife. 

The main character to me plays out has a witch. She uses a spell called Futu on Chino.  She talks about taking souls and healing. Her husbands cheats on her which I find horrible after they been together for eleven years. Fina meets someone new who's name is Chino. I was happy to see her forget about her husband after he wanted to leave her. In the beginning I found it funny when Fina husband was super scared when Fina found out he was cheating on her. I think he knew what she was capable of so he tried to be nice and brought her flowers. However, I still think Fina was still in a tough situation because Chino is married and pretty much a womanizer. To me she always find herself  attracted to men who likes to cheat. I wonder what does a spirit worker want with a womanizer men? Is she trying heal them for them to be a  better man for her? I think as I kept reading these questions was answered. 

There was also other of places surrounding the characters in the book. Suan Jan was mention a lot in some of the chapters. I think it surrounds them because Fina and Chino are Puerto Rican. I thought this was another way of them sharing culture with the readers. I also think this books surrounds supernatural situations that involved Afro-Caribbean religions. I think the title of the books comes from character name Tato who brought some type of bones to Fina to do her voodoo magic. I was surprised someone who is from New York know so much about voodoo. On page 92, “My mother pulled me out of her body under her long, bustled dress, and threw me into the pool, I  saw my little body float”. From this quote, it shows that Fina was doing spiritual work that had to do with death.This is the first type of book that I read that had something do with voodoo magic and spirits.