Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was flying back to the country of my birth with my wife, Rubi, after a twenty-year absence. I looked out the window at the desert below and realized that even though it seemed endless, the landscape had limits. #2 My mother, the youngest of seven children, was born in 1958. She could never remember the song her father had whistled as he approached their ranch on...