Poignant, humorous, and probing by turns, and set in the legendary Tarascan country of Michoacan in the 1960s, these eleven tales of Mexican villagers and wandering young Americans bring into sharp focus a rural Latin American world that has all but vanished with the enormous changes of the last few decades. In "A Cathedral Half in Gray," the ghost of a church and its new residents create an eerie home that never should have been. Millers...