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SANTA FE DREAMHOUSE:
Ten Years in the Land of Enchantment
By Reed Stevens
A rich life in New Mexico, humorous and frustrating,
romantic, always lively and fun to read.
Ten Years in the Land of Enchantment
By Reed Stevens
A rich life in New Mexico, humorous and frustrating,
romantic, always lively and fun to read.
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Santa Fe Dreamhouse delivers a heartwarming tale of love and life challenges. When Reed and Jim
left the east to start over in middle age, they found both joy and surprises in the foreign culture. They
learned to work with adobe, vigas and plaster; joined a neighborhood battle and city politics; studied
New Mexico history, encountered Indians. Horses and round-ups, construction and, when they ran out
of money, real estate—it’s all here.
Important, often bitter water and class issues face the southwest, especially Santa Fe, a magic
crossroads of fascinating people. Reed and Jim took a chance on each other and survived good times
and lean. If you have ever dreamed of a new beginning, here’s the trail to Santa Fe.
Advance praise:
“Reed Stevens’ memoir paints a glorious New Mexican landscape in which her midlife blooms with
passion and adventure when she and her lover transform a Santa Fe adobe wreck into a paradise of
renewal. Through the unfettered light of internal honesty, Stevens conjures a magic akin to that created
by Frances Mayes in Under a Tuscan Sun.”
—Martha Engber, Growing Great Characters From the Ground Up: A Thorough Primer for the
Writers of Fiction and Nonfiction
left the east to start over in middle age, they found both joy and surprises in the foreign culture. They
learned to work with adobe, vigas and plaster; joined a neighborhood battle and city politics; studied
New Mexico history, encountered Indians. Horses and round-ups, construction and, when they ran out
of money, real estate—it’s all here.
Important, often bitter water and class issues face the southwest, especially Santa Fe, a magic
crossroads of fascinating people. Reed and Jim took a chance on each other and survived good times
and lean. If you have ever dreamed of a new beginning, here’s the trail to Santa Fe.
Advance praise:
“Reed Stevens’ memoir paints a glorious New Mexican landscape in which her midlife blooms with
passion and adventure when she and her lover transform a Santa Fe adobe wreck into a paradise of
renewal. Through the unfettered light of internal honesty, Stevens conjures a magic akin to that created
by Frances Mayes in Under a Tuscan Sun.”
—Martha Engber, Growing Great Characters From the Ground Up: A Thorough Primer for the
Writers of Fiction and Nonfiction
