Sol Y Sombra

Set in the American Southwest, this collection of short stories introduces two ranch families: Tacho the horseman and his wife Sofia, a beekeeper, who trace their families' heritage to the time of New Spain; Sara, who escapes the turmoil of the eastern cities to join her husband, the narrator of these stories, whose ancestors came to the desert with the railroad soon after the Gadsden Purchase; their children, Anita and Nico; Andrea and Linnaeus; born to ranch life.