Doña Isidora, Peruvian Short Stories and Poetry of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Dorila A. Marting gives us a riveting portrait of a land and a culture very unlike our own. Yet at the same time, her universal themes-the eternal struggle between the generations, the ties that bind-make for an astonishing debut novel filled with colorful characters and intriguing situations anyone can relate to. Coming to the United States as an immigrant, Dorila A. Marting is proud to be a naturalized American citizen. From 1959 to 1968, the author was a correspondent for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix and the Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff. A member of Arizona Press Women and the National Association of Press Women, she has received ten State Press awards and one national award for her journalism. Following graduate work at the University of Arizona, she became a Spanish language and ESL teacher. Now in her golden years at age eighty-seven, Marting is in perfect health and continues to write creatively from her home in Tucson.