Sliced Iguana

"In this follow-up to her acclaimed book Islands in the Clouds, Isabella Tree takes us on a journey into the heart of Mexico, beginning in Mexico City and then traveling among five completely different Mexican cultures that are little known within their own country, let alone the outside world. She takes part in shamanic rituals with the Maya in war-torn Chiapas; revels through the night with transvestites and matriarchs in Juchitan; awaits the arrival of the spirits for the Night of the Dead in an ancient graveyard on Lake Patzcuaro; joins the princely Huichol Indians on a pilgrimage into…