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Finalist, 2021 Best Book Awards for Travel Literature Finalist, 2021 Best Book Awards for Cover Design |
VIDAS: Deep in Mexico and Spain (Cardiff, CA: Waterside, 2021). A man or a woman can have many countries; not on the map only, but in the heart. He had three countries there. One was male, a father—America; two were female, a mother and a mistress—Mexico and Spain. They nurtured him, changed his life and at last made him into a man. This is the story of that life and the people, from the barrios of Los Angeles to the cities and villages of Mexico and Spain.VIDAS is a rite of passage from childhood to adolescence and maturity, a tribute to nature, food and love, a journey from the tender, mortal flesh to the luminous world of the spirit. It is also travel writing in the best sense, an evocation of peoples, places and rituals seldom glimpsed by natives or foreigners.
