This bilingual collection of stories set in the South-western United States and in South America deals with love and culture conflict in an evolving political and economic environment in modern-day New Mexico.

This bilingual collection of stories - set in the Southwestern United States and South America0́4deals with love and culture conflict in an evolving political and economic environment in modern-day New Mexico.

The twenty stories presented bilingually in this volume, many long out of print or available only in Spanish, demonstrate Ulibarri's mastery of the short story. Regional in setting but universal in their concern with the magic of ordinary experience, the stories blend fantasy and realism in their exploration of the human condition. All of them were written in Spanish and then translated, usually by the author, into English. Many of Ulibarri's stories portray the land and people of northern New Mexico. Together, these stories present a living mosaic of Hispanic, Indian, and Anglo people sharing an awe-inspiring yet oftentimes harsh landscape of forests, mountains, rivers, and animals. Conversational in tone, they preserved wonderful fragments of local history and folk traditions - witches, ghosts, and penitentes, strong-willed grandmothers, Indian chiefs, and singing cowboys. Other stories come out of the author's overseas experiences; particularly in Ecuador.

Exploring the effects of cross-cultural contact in the Americas, Brooklyn-based artist (and native New Mexican) Abeyta creates masterful oil paintings in a Spanish Baroque style infused with contemporary subject matter. His paintings combine ancient and contemporary Latino subjects-Cuzco style Madonnas, lowriders, Mexican wrestlers, Spanish matadors, New Mexican traditions, and the encounter of Europeans and Mesoamericans.