The Moths - A Story of Loss and Ritual

Matthew Hernandez explores the short story "The Moths" by Helena Maria Viramontes. "The Moths" is about a 14-year-old girl who takes care of her grandmother dying of stomach cancer. The unnamed girl is severely treated by her father and has a disdain for Catholic life. Her mother encourages her to spend her time with her grandma in which much of that time is spent gardening. The unnamed narrator is with her grandma when she passes away. After her grandmother dies she does a kind of ritual. I don't want to type it so I don't spoil the ending, but honestly it left me confused and I didn't feel like acting as if I had some of expertise in something that I don't. What I could say was a bit less ritual and a bit more mourning and the podcast would have been much different. Read here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-moths-and-other-stories-las-palomillas-de-la-noche-y-otros-relatos-helena-maria-viramontes/a3f399c38f4666c8?ean=9781558858510&next=t or https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/The-Moths-Viramontes-Helena-Maria.pdf  follow me: [email protected] https://discord.gg/36WxYB7T  https://locals.com/bookstoread/feed  https://x.com/BookChatWithYou