Awards
1987 Nebula Awards
Characters
| Name | Butler, Elizabeth |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupations | Archaeologist |
| Professor | |
| Traits | Married |
| Mother | |
| Estranged | |
| Name | Butler, Diane |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Trait | Unemployed |
| Genre | Magic realism Psychological Science fiction Fiction |
| Topics | Estranged families Mothers and daughters Career vs. family Life choices Mayas Magic Psychic abilities Self-sacrifice Personal growth |
| Setting | Merida, Yucatan Peninsula Archaeological dig Mayan ruins |