Trevor Hewitt’s Reviews > Aquí no es Miami > Status Update

First, the rise of a young woman to the status of Carnival Queen, a living symbol of the joy, vitality, and fruitfulness of Veracruz’s people; then, her subsequent disgrace as the murderer of her own children, a mythical villain, a fairy-tale witch whose name is invoked by mothers all over Veracruz telling boys and girls to eat their vegetables, or else “Evangelina will come and punish you.”