"In high desert plains, adobe villages, and farmsteads nestled in the folds of pinon-green mountains - even in centuries-old cities sprawling into modern shopping mall culture - time can seem to stand still. Step into another way of understanding place and time in these seven new short stories from award-winning author Martha Egan. They may be set in New Mexico but they resonate with basic human truths that trenscend the limits of regionalism."--BOOK JACKET.