Univ. of New Mexico Press
The Lost Minyan
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In ten separate, but not unrelated, vignettes, David Gitlitz explores through fiction how the Spanish and Mexican Inquisitions tore apart families in the 15...Read Review
The Dam Builders
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On Memorial Day, 1948, the Vanport River breaks its dikes and devastates a community of World War II veterans and their families. Most of ...Read Review
Flight of Souls
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Having been raised and abused in foster homes and reform schools, John Alexander, a student of anthropology and folklore, leaves the U. S. ...Read Review
Come With Me to Babylon
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This is not a typical, endearing Jewish immigrant story. In 1908 it was Esther’s Cohen’s dream to leave Russia and go to ...Read Review
The World in Pancho’s Eyes
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When Mikey is born in August of 1930, his father, Paul Summers, is working hard as a cowboy. He is also spending on whiskey ...Read Review
The Ghost of Mary Prairie
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Jake Leeds and Mikey Savage are best friends, both 15 years old, although Mikey is a few weeks older— entitling him to subject Jake ...Read Review
A Tropical Place Like That
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This book of short stories is set in the mountainous part of Michoacan in the 1960s. Lou (Luis) Becton, an American living temporarily ...Read Review
Mama Fela’s Girls
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Mama Fela’s Girls is a multi-generational tale in a fresh setting: Santa Lucίa, a small town in New Mexico in 1934. The ...Read Review
Bull by the Tale
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This book is an anthology of eight short stories about the American West from Spanish colonial days to the present. Two stories tell ...Read Review
The Skin Of The Sky
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The Skin of the Sky is a fictionalized biography of Mexican astronomer Lorenzo de Tena. Beginning in the 1930s, Florencia, Lorenzo’s mother, ...Read Review
