Blink-and-you-miss-it Los Fuegos, New Mexico, is the setting for this fierce, funny, and heartbreaking debut novel. When Willie Lee Woolston first comes to town, she's hitchhiking through in the back of a pickup. Five years later she returns to find a place to hide out from the ghosts of her past. A blues singer with a buried voice and flame-red hair, Willie Lee is drawn to the hidden music of this dusty mining town, and here her dreams mingle with those of the townspeople--a family that lives in a boxcar; a pair of too ...
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Blink-and-you-miss-it Los Fuegos, New Mexico, is the setting for this fierce, funny, and heartbreaking debut novel. When Willie Lee Woolston first comes to town, she's hitchhiking through in the back of a pickup. Five years later she returns to find a place to hide out from the ghosts of her past. A blues singer with a buried voice and flame-red hair, Willie Lee is drawn to the hidden music of this dusty mining town, and here her dreams mingle with those of the townspeople--a family that lives in a boxcar; a pair of too-young lovers; a man who summons his brother by playing the accordion; and Chavela, a woman who makes her realize that sometimes love chooses us. When an accident at the mine threatens disaster, they all come together in a night of terrible beauty. Cinematic and lyrical, "Arroyo" is a deeply moving and ultimately hopeful book by the most distinctive Southwestern voice since Barbara Kingsolver.
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Azi Rad dj. Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Inscribed by Author(s) 17703 shelf. Unread. Embossed black spine w/ brown bds. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Author's 1st novel. Giftworthy! Blurbs: John Nichols, Pam Houston.
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8vo. Blue and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 257pp. Fine/near fine. First edition of this author's first novel set in a New Mexico mining town, tight and quite handsome--and nicely inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on the title page: "To Rich--/ Keep the faith--/ and very best luck to you / Summer."