When Los Angeles-based novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife visited central Mexico in 1985, they fell under the spell of an irresistible place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and bougainvillea-splashed patios are seductive, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air. Awakened to needs they didn't know they had, they returned to California, sold their house and cast off for a new life in San Miguel de Allende.
In an alternately humorous and poignant narrative, Cohan recounts how he and his wife absorb the town's sensual ambiance, eventually find and refurbish a crumbling 250 year old house and become entwined in the endless drama of Mexican life. From peso devaluations, earthquakes, murders and water shortages to a jail break and Mexican and gringo friends' births, marriages and deaths, 'On Mexican Time' captures the indelible characters, little tragedies and curious incidents of life in a distinctive Mexican town. At the same time the book enfolds readers in the delights of one of the world's most desirable travel destinations.
