Refarat "Multicultural Literature" in usa: Mexican American Literature: Rudolfo Anaya(1937-2020) "Rio Grande Fall" (1996) teacher: Nurimbetova. G student: Seydalieva

Rio Grande Fall

A PI with deep cultural roots in his native New Mexico, Sonny Baca is guided by his intuition and guardian spirit, the coyote—but is that enough to stop a cult leader’s murderous rampage?
The world-famous International Balloon Fiesta of Albuquerque is one of the city’s most eagerly anticipated annual events and its biggest moneymaker. But when a woman plunges to her death from one of the balloons—foreshadowed by Sonny’s vision of a body plummeting from the sky—Sonny’s sure it’s murder.
The dead woman was the chief witness to testify against the cult implicated in the murder for hire of Sonny’s cousin Gloria, whose death still haunts him. In addition to motive, Sonny finds means and opportunity: a homeless family who saw someone push Veronica Worthy out of the hot-air balloon. Worthy was one of the four wives of Raven, leader of the sun cult, and a dangerous, shamanlike criminal who’s supposed to be dead. But the four black feathers found on the corpse are his calling card—clues to let Sonny know he’s alive and kicking. And his murder spree isn’t over.
Led by his spirit guides, Sonny races to stop a vengeful madman and save the woman he loves.

Publisher's Synopsis

When a woman dies after falling from a hot-air balloon at Albuquerque's world famous balloon fiesta, private investigator Sonny Baca's intuition tells him it's murder. His intuition also tells him that the murder is the work of the Raven, the leader of a violent cult that murdered Sonny's cousin.
he killers from Zia Summer (1995) are down but not out. Tamara Dubronsky, the art heiress who ordered the death of p.i. Sonny Baca's cousin Gloria Dominic, goes free when the principal witness against her, Veronica Worthy, falls from a hot-air balloon during Albuquerque's balloon festival. Madge Swenson, Sonny's old school friend in charge of the fiesta, produces some witnesses who say that Veronica was alone in the balloon, but Sonny finds a homeless family that saw someone else push her out- -a man who can only be Veronica's husband Raven, the sorcerer Sonny had thought was killed. Two more murders of balloonists will link Raven to an elaborate drug-smuggling plot, the Medell°n cartel, and the CIA; but the real story here is the fight to the death, and maybe beyond, between Raven, a ``lord from the underworld,'' and Sonny, whose miraculous nine lives—he's protected from Raven's worst by the power of a Zia medallion—may not be enough. Reaching into Raven's enchanted circle through his own guardian spirit, the coyote, Sonny provokes him to a series of magical duels whose derring-do stretches the conventions of the mystery to the breaking point, using them as a portal to another sort of mystery deeper than most authors can dream of. A fascinating hybrid of detective story, adventure yarn, and shamanistic magic that will infuriate some readers (identifying the triggermen in the drug killings turns out to be stunningly mundane) and captivate others.