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 Thirteen Senses, sequel to Rain of Gold, continues the heritage story of acclaimed author, Victor Villaseñor. Villaseñor’s past arose from the sometime heroic, sometime ignoble and perpetually interesting life within two separate but similar Indian villages in Northern Mexico. After the Mexican Revolution, members of both villages settled in southern California.
Thirteen Senses, is about Victor’s high-spirited mother, personification of trust and the seventh sense, intuition, and his romantic, complex father, a “reformed” boot-legger. The opening scene sees Lupe and Salvador at their wedding anniversary surrounded by many of the family members who helped them start their married life fifty years earlier. The priest has almost completed the ceremony, intentionally ending with the couple’s original vows, when Lupe objects to the word “obey.” She loves Salvador much more than she did on her marriage day; but her strong suit is not obedience and Lupe has a myriad of reasons to object to the priest’s insistence.
The story undulates with sensuality ... with the commitment of two people who are lovers, partners and soulmates ... with a story that feels like the truth because it is Victor Villaseñor’s own story of the household and family ranch life that nurtured him through boyhood and beyond.
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