>>La Maravilla

ISBN: 0-452-27160-6
305 pp. | paper only | $13.00

Alfredo Véa, Jr.

In the desert outside the Phoenix city limits is a world of marvels spilling out of the adobe homes, tar-paper shacks, rusted Cadillacs and battered trailers of Buckeye. Young Beto negotiates the wonders and perils of Buckeye with the help of his aristocratic Spanish grandmother, a Catholic curandera, and his grandfather, a Yaqui Indian whose body is confined to a wheelchair but whose spirit soars above the desert.