In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores
universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst,
memory loss--from a perspective belonging singularly to a native of the
Yucatán Peninsula. Mayo's unnamed narrator is an older woman, isolated
in her domestic life, who is both suffering from memory loss and intent
on recounting the lives of three generations of her family. The Yucatán
culture and community that Marrufo Huchim describes through her
narrator's fine but faltering mind will be foreign but not fetishized
for American readers.