NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER BOOK OF THE MONTH
“EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE I STUMBLE
ACROSS A BOOK SO BEAUTIFULLY
WRITTEN AND SO INFUSED WITH
INTELLIGENCE AND HEART THAT
IT LEAVES AN INDELIBLE MARK ON ME.”
"She is innocence and experience, discoverer and knowing witness. The Maya believe we are nearing an end time; I cannot imagine a better chronicler of this time and place than Mary Jo McConahay."
“Rips off the layers of a little-known world, exposing to us its hypnotic beauty--and violence--through her own experience.”
"One of the region’s finest journalists"
