Publisher Comments: The Albuquerque barrio portrayed in this vivid novel of postwar New Mexico is a place where urban and rural, political and religious realities coexist, collide, and combine. The magic realism for which Anaya is well known combines with an emphatic portrayal of the plight of workers dispossessed of their heritage and struggling to survive in an alien culture. (source: http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780826310545-3) The cover is a detail from the mural *The Crossing* by Carlos Arrien