"The world is full of sorrow," Agapita whispered to Alfonso.
As this exquisite novel charts Alfonso\'s life journey from childhood through his education and evolution as a writer, r.
What then unfolds is an elegiac song to the llanos of New Mexico where Alfonso comes of age.
Did she stamp those words into his destiny? The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. "The world is full of sorrow," Agapita whispered to Alfonso