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Title: Not much archaeology, lots of sorrow
Review: Martin's characters take the reader into small town life in Cortez, where their destinies wind and unwind. The story steps carefully from past to present, revealing Sarah's own sense of being buried, just like the Anasazi girl whose skeleton she has found in the ruins. Her road trip with Tom John is the best part of the book, the archetypal journey to self. Sarah's sorrow (MS), her husband's sorrow (his affair), Tom John's sorrow (he's getting up there in years), Oma's sorrow (not being able to stay in her home), Sarah's family's sorrow all reflect off each other like sparkling shards of some shattered mirror. Everybody has to be somewhere, and as a reader, I'm glad the characters of this story are here in my neck of the woods--the Four Corners, Mancos, Cortez, Lewis-Arriola.
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