TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alcalá,Kathleen
TI  - Spirits of the ordinary: a tale of Casas Grandes 
SN  - 0811814475
AV  - PS3551.L287 S65 1997
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Chronicle Books
KW  - Mexican American families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Mexican American Border Region
KW  - Texas
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - Also issued online
N2  - A novel of 1870s Mexico, featuring a mixed-faith family. It is headed by Zacarias Carabajal, a Jewish gold prospector who converts to Catholicism to marry a rich woman, while his parents continue practicing their faith in secret. He is accused of stirring Indians to revolt and while the army is hunting for him, his wife has an affair with an army officer. A first novel
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0722/96015665-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0738/96015665-b.html
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/spiritsofordinar00alca
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL978429M
ER  -