ISBN: 0-88739-121-4
128 pp.
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Paperback Original
Price: $13.50
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Under the Tabachin Tree
Celia Wakefield
Under The Tabachín Tree deals with the very current issue of retiring on a fixed income.
With a humorist's eye and a linguist's sensibility, Mrs. Wakefield captures the antics of the town residents of Colima, fleshing out her characters with a genuine gift for storytelling.
"It was my first evening at the boardinghouse in Mexico City some years ago. The menu included frijolitos (little beans) accompanied by tortillitas (small tortillas). The meal was served by a maid named Esperancita (Little Hope). However, everything was of normal size. When I heard Manuelito, one of the other boarders, ask for a drink of water, "por favorcito" (little please), I became aware that there is a philosophy inherent in Mexican-style Spanish: a view of life through the small end of opera glasses. The opposite of Alice in Wonderland, Mexicans have eaten of a plant which reduces, not themselves, but everything around them."
From the Prologue
Review: "Like many retired Americans, Wakefield and her husband, Bill, decided that their money would go further in Mexico. So off they went, not to the more popular gringo spots at Lake Chalupa or San Miguel de Allende, but to Colima, a tropical town off the beaten track, where there are few foreigners and a mixed bag of amenities. The Wakefields were experienced Mexico travelers, which is what sets this story apart from other tales of older Americans trying to stretch their pensions in out-of-the-way places."
Publisher's Weekly
Bio: Celia Wakefield was brought up in New England. She has traveled extensively, contributing travel articles to magazines such as Punch and The Atlantic. This is her third book. High Cities of the Andes recounts her adventures in South America. Searching for Isabel Godin is the story of the first woman to go down the Amazon.
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