Zone of Tolerance: The Guaymas Chronicles

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David Stuart’s critically acclaimed first volume, The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera (Southwest Books of the Year 2003, Albuquerque Alibi best book of 2003), told a little girl’s story and a very personal tale of love set in Guaymas, Mexico, a fishing port and vacation destination positioned on Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, about four hundred miles south of Tucson. Zone of Tolerance, is about the “big girls” of the 1970s Guaymas night club district and the conflicting needs, wants, realities, and illusions at the core of the viejas’ (“working” girls’) lives.

Stuart makes a speciality of the exotic fallen angels of the once fabled Club Río Rita in Guaymas’s Zona de Tolerancia (red-light district). Moving, funny, and every now and then tragic, the layered dimensions of their world are mesmerizing. He also continues the stories of his working class friends and compadres in Guaymas, some closer to him than his stateside circle of relatives. Their struggles with life at the streets provide a wealthy and uplifting counterpoint to day by day life in the Zona.

Zone of Tolerance is very important, not only for its human and historical context, but precisely because this is a snapshot of a long-gone, little known slice of Mexican life. In this volume, as in the first, Stuart brings his unique standpoint to bear on people seldom written about and a world rarely revealed.

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