If you are looking for a book that is staunchly Nuevomexicano and rooted in the deep histories of place, this is the book for you. This work of historic fiction, published in English and the manito (Northern New Mexican) dialect of Spanish, tells the story of the Mora Valley from the 1835 Land Grant “Lo de Mora” until the 1970s. Meléndez deftly draws the Mora Valley from a collection of inter-related cuentitos, ephemera, and the oral tradition. Through the cuentitos that make up the fictionalized Mora, we emerge from reading with a sense of how people make their own archives, therefore, histories.