Travel to Mexico

On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel

Format: Paperback
Author: Tony Cohan
ReleaseDate: 09 January, 2001
Publisher: Broadway
Rating:

A well crafted, extended essay on a premier Mexico destination
Cohan is a perceptive and careful writer who well captures the sensuous and culturally deep experience that is San Miguel. I have recently returned from San Miguel de Allende, a centuries old town of great importance in Mexican history as it was here that independence from Spain began. If you visit there, get this book and read it at the conclusion of your stay. You will see that he has said what you wanted to say about San Miguel. Highly recommended, as is San Miguel de Allende itself.

enjoy Mexico vicariously!
His luxurious use of prose and vivid descriptions, combined with his sincere love for Mexico, made reading this book a most enjoyable vicarious adventure. This author has a wonderful style that made me feel like I was there with him, experiencing his zen-like transformation from fast-lane city dweller to truly connected human being. .

¡A mí me gusta!


It is the Mexico of those 15 years, and it is the gringo and gringa he brought to it. I think he nails it. It was no paradise, but it was a great place to stare at the walls and the sky to draw closer to one's real wants. His discovery of the altiplano and its various cultures was for him like the end of Candide's philosophical journey. This was it for Cohan, a place to tend to his humanity, perhaps to finally understand it. In the end he and his wife only fear too much "progress". The status quo works well for them, both place and age appropriately.

Obviously, it is a work for those of us who have experienced Colonial Mexico, contemplated living there, but decided not. However, it is also a book for those who have looked beyond their own accident of place of birth, for those who have wondered what might have been, or could be. His characters might just help with the answers. They are varied hybrids, interesting all, of that singular experience called San Miguel de Allende.

And the house on Calle Flor? Well, it's the story within the story---all you ever need to know about Mexico revealed as the story of a house.

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