Description: Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, Meléndez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.
Brief description: Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Neustadt Professor and Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma and Executive Director of World Literature Today. Among his many publications are The Paternal Romance: Reading God-the-Father in Early Western Culture and Criticism and Culture: The Role of Critique in Modern Literary Theory.
Review Quotes: "This dual-language narrative, superbly done, reminds us that by remembering our past and our ancestors we stay connected to our history and rooted in a sense of place." --Spencer R. Herrera, author of Sagrado: A Photopoetics across the Chicano Homeland