"With elegant prose and an artist's eye for detail, Mayo may just have written one of the best books ever about Baja California. Highly recommended"
Library Journal

"Ay, if only I had been at C.M. Mayo's side in her rendezvous through Baja California... My recourse is her joyful, intellectually sparkling chronicle"
Ilan Stavans,
author of The Hispanic Condition

"A luminous exploration of Baja California, from its southern tip at Cabo San Lucas to its 'lost city' of Tijuana... [Mayo] takes the fiction writer's impulse and blends it with the instincts of a journalist to create a work of nonfiction that elides into modern myth"
Los Angeles Times Book Review


Miraculous Air
Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico
by C.M. Mayo
ISBN 978-0-9852781-2-0

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Audio CD (double)
From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion
by C.M. Mayo

A nonfiction novela about a fairytale: a visit to Maximilian von Habsburg's castle in Trieste, 2003. Previously published in The Massachusetts Review (winner, Washingtion Prize for Best Personal Essay). This was a journey undertaken as part of the research for The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books), the novel based on the true story.




Kindle edition e-book
From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion
A nonfiction novela about a fairytale: a visit to the Maximilian von Habsburg's Italian castle
by C.M. Mayo
Originally published in the Massachusetts Review; winner of the Washington Writing Prize for Best Personal Essay. By the author of the novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and Sky Over El Nido, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award.
e-book, May 15, 2011
Downloadable PDF, Kindle, and iBook editions.

The novelesque short story priginally published in the Kenyon Review.

By the author of the novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and Sky Over El Nido, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award.

e-book, May 1, 2011



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