{"product_id":"flight-from-fiesta-9780804008921","title":"Flight From Fiesta","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Waters  whose work has spanned half a century  has continually attempted to depict the reconciliation of opposites  to heal the national wounds of polarization. Flight From Fiesta  Waters first novel in nearly two decades  is testimony to that aspiration  emerging as a moving and masterfullytold story of two characters who must discover the potential for common ground between their personalities. Set in Santa Fe in the midfifties  the story itself is deceptively simple. Elsie  a spoiled  selfcentered tenyearold Anglo tourist girl  has come to the annual Fiesta with her divorced mother and her mothers lover. When Elsie runs away from her hotel  she encounters Inocencio  an old alcoholic Pueblo Indian now reduced to selling pottery beneath the portal of the Palace of the Governors. With childish cunning she maneuvers Inocencio into taking her away with him. In the wake of the childs disappearance  as the local possementality intensifies and Inocencio is suspected of kidnapping and perhaps molesting her  the frightened Indian flees to the hills  taking Elsie with him on a weeklong odyssey through the mountains  towns  and pueblos of New Mexico. Waters eye is precise  providing sharp visual detail on very page. His ear is flawless  especially in his rendering of the laconic and stolid Indian speech patterns. All through his book there is an immediacy and a feel for place and culture that cannot be fabricated but must be gained  as Waters himself has gained it  through a lifetime among these people  these towns  and these mountains. The reconciliation of the two fugitives of Flight From Fiesta serves to point  not didactically or allegorically  but emotionally and spiritually  but emotionally and spiritually  to the possibility of the grander reconciliation that Waters envisions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44936802336821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0804008922","price":99.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780804008921.jpg?v=1787607432","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/flight-from-fiesta-9780804008921","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}