Chapter 10 Summary

La Loca's favorite place is the acequia (irrigation ditch) running along her mother's house. It is as far as she ever drifts from the house, and although some who spot her there on occasion think she is lost, Loca is much more aware of the world around her than anyone realizes. All the women in her life have at some point gone out into the world and come back disappointed, devastated, or not at all, and Loca simply has no use for society at large.

Even Fe has left now, having moved into an apartment with a woman from her bank. Fe does not remember the details of the days after her break-up with Tom. Like Juan Soldado, the legendary soldier whose ghost hides the entrance of his lost gold mine, Fe got lost in the gold mine of her head. There, she...