Kathleen Alcalá

Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short-story collection, Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, and a trilogy of novels set in the Southwest and nineteenth-century Mexico: Spirits of the Ordinary, The Flower in the Skull, and Treasures in Heaven. Born in Compton, California, to Mexican parents, she now lives near Seattle, where she teaches creative writing.
The Desert Remembers My Name The Desert Remembers My Name
The Desert Remembers My Name

The Desert Remembers My Name

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