La Bloga: First novel pays homage to lost town of Santa Rita

“Aaron A. Abeyta’s debut novel, Rise, Do Not Be Afraid (Ghost Road Press, $15.95 paperback), is a hypnotically lyrical homage to a place and its people decimated by time and change.

The place is Santa Rita, a predominantly Mexican community so tied to the landscape that the people and their terrain seem to be the same. “Santa Rita is very real, a village in northern New Mexico about one mile from the Colorado border,” said Abeyta, who lives in Antonito, Colo. “My dad used to take me there when I was a kid. Even as a boy, I thought the place was beautiful and somehow mythical.”"

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