It’s on pages 20-21 in a story called Mayela One Day in 1989. The main character is in El Paso and he comes across an older gentleman and Mayela “…as dramatic and endowed as a fantasy.”

Here’s the rest of that description:

“It’s her red dress and wavy black hair and a blue cloudless sky, as Mexican as cheap paint, that halos her, and a nasty kink in her eyes which I can see even at a distance.”

But it’s not for everyone. If you like Latino/a (read: Chicano) literature (ex: Anya, Cisneros, Castillo, etc) you’ll get it. Those that aren’t use to the style may find it frustrating since Gilb’s pen is filled with soulful insight.

My friend Tony and Picasso’s Dragon discussed Gilb’s latest, The Flowers, for two weeks straight on air. And if Woodcuts is any indication of what he did in The Flowers, I understand why it took them so long.

I’m still analyzing those three paragraphs.