Dec 28, 2009

Peregrinos de Aztlan (Pilgrims in Aztlan) | Summary

If there is a plot associated with Pilgrims in Aztlán, it existed, at one time, only in the author’s head as careful foresight in planning a complicated scheme. In the book itself, there is only story. More definitively, there is a collage of stories. That is not to say, however, that there is no action.

The novel begins with an introduction to Loreto Maldonado, a former revolutionary, who is now eighty years old and a Tijuana car washer. Loreto is also a very proud Yaqui Indian whose main goal in each remaining day of his life is to maintain his dignity and to...