Flowers
Iti
Candles
Itun
Corn offering
Kanara
Thunder
Lasú
Braids
Trenzas
Náā
Mother
Ndaha
Hands
Ndéchi
Where is . . . ?
Ndixi
Liquor distilled from
sugarcane
Nducha
Water
Agua
Nducha yúján nuní yīhi
Hot drink of milk, masa, sugar, and cinnamon
Atole
Nicuvui nuhundeyteta
Ñíhin
Sweat house
Ñuhun
Fire
Nunī
Corn
Maiz
Nuñi saha
Corn boiled with limewater
Nixtamal
Ñú’ū anima
Home of the dead
Ñū’ún sav
Gods of the rain
Ñū’ún yuu nu’un
Gods of the hearth
Ñú’ūu cuhu
Two sisters
Sándoo
Wash
Limpia
Sēhe síhí
Daughter
Soko
Sacrifice
Father
Ticuāá
Butterfly
Tiñū’ú xíní
Stars
Estrellas
Tú cuiti
Nothing
Vico nuhu
Clouds
Vihnchá
Prickly pear cactus
Nopales
Yoo
Moon
Luna
Yúján
Corn dough or flour
Masa
Yuu Sechi
Dry River
Rio Seco
about the author
Susan Straight has published eight novels. Her most recent, Between Heaven and Here, is the final book in the Rio Seco trilogy. Take One Candle Light a Room was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Kirkus Reviews, and A Million Nightingales was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her novel Highwire Moon was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. “The Golden Gopher” won the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Story. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Harper’s, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Believer, Zoetrope: All-Story, Black Clock, and elsewhere. Straight has been awarded the Lannan Prize for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. She is distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family, whose history is featured on susanstraight.com.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2001 by Susan Straight
Cover design by Angela Goddard
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