Meg Atwell, age sixteen is a young women with principles. Romantic principles. She's never been kissed, never been on a date nad has never traveled far from her home in Wisconsin. Apprehensive about embarking on a five-week mission to Mexico, she soon finds what joys and challenges await her.

Offers a collection of six stories featuring Native American and Hispanic characters, set in various locations from Mexico City and Tijuana to the Sioux nation in South Dakota.

"Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an attractive married woman and mother--while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks...