June, a widow living alone in the New Mexico wilderness, offers room and board to a Mexican man who has entered the United States illegally. While her relationship with Fidel deepens, a letter from a distant uncle informs June, who was adopted at birth, that she has biological siblings living close to the Arizona/Mexico border. June longs to bond with kin, but their views threaten her attachment to Fidel, raising issues of loyalty, trust, compassion, and prejudice.
Bev Magennis was born in Toronto, Canada. After a long career as a visual artist, she began writing in her sixties, inspired by a remote region of New Mexico where she lived for seventeen years. Bev was awarded a 2010 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellowship and received a Norman Mailer Fiction Fellowship in 2011.