Puesta Del Sol

By Ed Johnson

Rachel, a woman in her mid-50s, has lived a nomadic life since killing her father when she was young. But a curandera, a mystic folk healer from her past, convinces her to take her dementia-stricken mother, Rosa, from a nursing home in California and return her to their native New Mexico.The year is 2000. Rachel has survived the separation from her mother and the death of her young husband. She has raised a daughter, who knows nothing of her past, while moving from place to place, working in construction. She is in a mid-life crisis, made worse by the appearance of the curandera and the reunion with her mother.Rosa, a spirited and spiritual woman, does not recognize Rachel but is happy with the prospect of going home. She relives her life, beginning with giving birth to her daughter out of wedlock. She finds love in a lumber camp and inherits a new family, with the pleasures and hardships that accompany it.For Rachel, the road trip is an opportunity to reconnect with her mother, hoping for any hint of her recognition. She relives the threat of the man who she knows is her father, even as Rosa has tried to hide it from her. However, Rosa's step-daughter, Connie, who saw Rachel kill her father and is the person who placed Rosa in the nursing home, is on the trail to get her back. She enlists the help of Rachel's estranged brother, a small-town sheriff.Rachel turns to her daughter, Anna, for help. Anna gets to meet the grandmother she never knew she had. Rachel uses the lessons learned from the curandera to avoid being caught as her mother's health worsens. Rachel never gets the recognition from Rosa she yearns for, but finds contentment in the existence they have shared.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086PLBBLQ
• ISBN13: 9798634235738
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"