A Tropical Place Like That

by Morrow, Baker H.

• ISBN13: 9780826339379
• ISBN10: 0826339379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Poignant, humorous, and probing by turns, and set in the legendary Tarascan country of Michoacan in the 1960s, these eleven tales of Mexican villagers and wandering young Americans bring into sharp focus a rural Latin American world that has all but vanished with the enormous changes of the last few decades. In 'A Cathedral Half in Gray', the ghost of a church and its new residents create an eerie home that never should have been. Millers and goblins follow the spectral white tracks of a burro train into a remote river valley in 'The Red Kite'. A humble tire repairman and his wife want children too much, with disastrous consequences, in 'The Flat'. The bloody Mexican Revolution casts its long shadow over a New Mexican grandmother and her doting granddaughter in the delightfully named 'Dancing Is to Walking as Singing Is to Talking'.

Author Biography

Baker H. Morrow is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico.

Table of Contents

A tropical place like that	p. 1
Health lesson	p. 19
Middle class	p. 31
What would Sir Edmund do?	p. 43
A cathedral half in Gray	p. 59
When warriors danced	p. 75
The flat	p. 89
The red kite	p. 103
The Luger	p. 119
Greeks at bay	p. 137
Dancing is to walking as singing is to talking	p. 147
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