Mortal Highway Featured in Pasatiempo
“There was only one time when I met a family at a descanso. I’d gone to see a friend who’d lost his brother in El Rito, and as I was leaving, he said, “Go down this road. There’s one down there.’ I found it, and it was at twilight. The mother and the father were there. I parked and, somewhat tentatively, walked over. It was cold. It was winter. They were decorating the descanso for Valentine’s Day. They talked to me. They wanted to talk. There’s a memory from that encounter in the narrative.”