A Growing Season - by Sue Boggio & Mare Pearl (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Hailed by Booklist as two talented authors who vividly bring to life the beauty of New Mexico and its people, Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl return in A Growing Season to Esperanza, New Mexico, the setting of their first book, Sunlight and Shadow. Esperanza is a community at the crossroads where a devastating drought threatens the farming community's very survival. Vultures circle in the form of developers who see failing farms as ripe pickings for a bedroom community for Albuquerque. Court battles pit the endangered silvery minnow against the farmers as the once mighty Rio Grande shrinks from its banks even as demand for its precious water increases.

From the Back Cover

"There are no chiles like those grown in the heart of New Mexico. In A Growing Season, Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl bring to life the deeply rooted traditions and wonderfully diverse community that sows and harvests this amazing fruit--even as drought, economic fragility, and human greed threaten it year by year."--Ann Cummins, author of Yellowcake

About the Author

Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl grew up together in Iowa and are retired after long careers in health care at the University of New Mexico.