Mexico:  A Traveler's Literary Companion - Edited by C.M. Mayo

Published by:  Wereabouts Press, $14.95, ISBN # 1-883513-15-4

"This is how Mexico looks, tastes and feels, and how its writers write about it. . . .This is a book to
throw in a suitcase or mochila (backpack) on the way to Mexico or just settling into a favorite patio
chair. It will open your eyes, fill you with pleasure and render our perennial vecinos a little less distante."
                     --Los Angeles Times

"This delicious volume has lovingly gathered a banquet of pieces that reveal Mexico in all its infinite variety,
its splendid geography, its luminous peoples. What a treat!"
                     --Margaret Sayers Peden, leading literary translator and editor, Mexican Writers on Writing
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Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a
panoramic vision of Mexico offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary
prose. Here are writings-many translated for the first time-that bring you to the people of the beaches, the
deserts, jungles, snow-capped mountains, and megacities.

The voices are rich and diverse, the stories enthralling and strange. These writings shatter stereotypes as they
provide a rollicking journey from the Pacific to the Gulf, from Yucatan to the U.S.-Mexico border, from humble
ranchos to a fabulous mountaintop castle.

C.M. Mayo is founding editor of Tameme, one of the most prestigious publishers of Spanish/English literary
translation. She is the author of the widely lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles
through Baja California, the Other Mexico, and Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for
Short Fiction.

CONTENTS:

    THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER

    Tecate:
    Daniel Reveles, "Big Caca's Revenge"

    Ciudad Juárez:
    Carlos Fuentes, "Malintzin of the Maquilas"


    THE NORTH

    In the State of Sinaloa:
    Inés Arredondo, "The Silent Words"

    In the State of Chihuahua:
    Jesús Gardea, "According to Evaristo"

    The Northern Desert:
    Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo, "The Green Bottle"

    Baja California:
    Agustín Cadena, "Lady of the Seas"
    C. M. Mayo, "Rancho Santa Inés: Fast!"

    
    CENTRAL MEXICO

    Mexico City:
    Carlos Monsiváis, "Identity Hour or, What Photos Would You Take of the Endless City?"
    Juan Villoro, "One-Way Street"
    Guadalupe Loaeza, "Oh, Polanco!"
    Fernando del Paso, "The Emperor in Miravalle"

    Near Cuernavaca, Morelos:
    Mónica Lavín, "Day and Night"

    In the State of Puebla:
    Pedro Ángel Palou, "Huaquechula"
    Ángeles Mastretta, "Aunt Elena"

    Morelia, Michoacán:
    Raúl Mejía, "Banquets"

    Guadalajara, Jalisco:
    Martha Cerda, "And One Wednesday"

    Querétaro (in the Bajío):
    Araceli Ardón, "It Is Nothing of Mine"

    
    ALONG THE GULF OF MEXICO

    In the State of Tabasco:
    Bruno Estañol, "Fata Morgana"

    In the State of Veracruz:
    Ilan Stavans, "Twins"
    Raymundo Hernández-Gil, "Tarantula"

    
   SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST

    Acapulco:
    Julieta Campos, "She Has Reddish Hair and Her Name Is Sabina"

    Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca:
    Alberto Ruy Sánchez, "Vigil in Tehuantepec"

    Chiapas:
    Rosario Castellanos, "Tenebrae Service"

    
   YUCATÁN

    Laura Esquivel, "Swift as Desire"

Translators: Alfred MacAdam, Cynthia Steele, Mark Schafer, Geoff Hargreaves, C. M. Mayo,
John Kraniauskas, Daniel Shapiro, Amy Schildhouse Greenberg, Philip Garrison, Carl I.
Jubrán, Eduardo Jiménez, Harry Morales, Daryl R. Hague, Leland H. Chambers, Myralyn F.
Allgood, and Stephen Lytle.

MEXICO, edited by C. M. Mayo, $14.95, ISBN # 1-883513-15-4