Women at the Edge of Redemption: PENTIRSI Reimagines Desire, Faith, and the Feminine Soul
From the pen of Cymbeline Villamin comes a fearless new anthology that dares to ask: What if the ultimate love story was not between man and woman—but between the wounded self and the Divine?
In Pentirsi: Stories of Repentance, Villamin gathers her ten interwoven tales that dramatize the odyssey of spiritual awakening among women scarred by longing, aging, and betrayal. Whether it's a woman entangled with a priest (Whom Her Soul Loved), a fetus pleading for life (Foreign Body), or a breast cancer survivor falling in love with her radiotherapy technician (Healing in Linac), the voices in Pentirsi are fragile yet defiant, drenched in poetry, and pierced by conscience.
“Repentance in my stories is not punishment,” Villamin explains. “It is intimacy with God, forged in suffering and self-knowledge.”
With a structure that mimics a pilgrimage— from ancient Jerusalem to contemporary Manila— the stories form a sacred narrative arc. Readers are invited to journey through transgression, illness, desire, and ultimately, a holy silence.
Villamin, author of The Witch of Pontevedra, offers with Pentirsi not just fiction, but a memoir of the soul.
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