The life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and her fight for the right to study as told by real and fictitious characters who accompanied her through her infancy in Nepantla and Panoayan, Mexico, and in the court of the vice queen, Leonor Carreto, and the San Jeronimo Convent. This book provides access to a new understanding of how to live and who we have to be to transcend this new era."