These stories help define the world of the Texas-Mexico Frontier--an explosive world where lives break, loves shatter, and healing happens. Kathryn Lane, a native of Mexico, explores this world, leading readers on a journey through time and geography with the promise of magic and transformation.
Like an ancient volcano slowly belching up its past sins, this book takes you on a journey from the mountains of Mexico to the frontera of South Texas, each eruption a story leaving you scarred from past violences bleeding onto the current page. Pick up Kathryn Lane's book--it will fill you with heartache and sadness but also with a sense of the realities of living border lives like volcanos in the backyard....
--Christopher Carmona, author of The Road to Llorna Park and I Have Always Been Here