Tierra: contemporary stories from New Mexico/ Edited by Rudolfo Anaya/ 1989

An OK collection of short stories; I didn't rally complete this one, either, as one story is only in Spanish and while I tried mightily to understand it, my lack of knowledge of any tenses besides present and future perfect really made it impossible to construct any meaning from it. It suffered a bit from the New Mexico-centrism: e.g., selecting a mediocre story from a good writer due to the locale of the story-- yes, I'm calling you out, Mr. Anaya, for including your own "Iliana" instead of a better one-- or stories not having any thematic elements to link them into a collection beyond being written by a person who is from New Mexico. I did enjoy Robert Granat's story and surprisingly I liked the Tony Hillerman story, too.