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What do most career women do after a successful run on Madison Avenue? Catherine Finerty watched her friends settle into the country-club life. She opted instead for Mexico.
When the 60-year-old widow loaded up her car and headed south, what she found at the end of the road was far from what she expected. Finerty settled into a comfortable house just outside of Guadalajara and, although not a Catholic, she soon immersed herself in Franciscan volunteer work. It wasn't long before she found herself visiting small settlements hidden in the tropical mountains of western Mexico, and it was in Jesús María—so isolated that one could only get there by mule or small plane—that she found her new calling: the village nurse.
With its bugs and heat, no phones or running water, the tiny town was hardly a place to enjoy one's retirement years, but Finerty was quickly charmed by the community of Cora Indians and mestizos. Armed with modest supplies, a couple of textbooks, and common sense, she found herself delivering first aid, advising on public health, and administering injections. And in a place where people still believed in the power of shamans, providing health care sometimes required giving in to the magical belief that a hypodermic needle could cure anything.
Finerty's account of her eight years in Jesús María is both a compelling story of nursing under adverse conditions and a loving portrait of a people and their ways. She shares the joys and sorrows of this isolated world: religious festivals and rites of passage; the tragedy of illness and death in a place where people still rely on one another as much as medicine; a flash flood that causes such havoc that even less-than-pious village men attend Mass daily. And she introduces a cast of characters not unlike those in a novel: Padre Domingo and his airborne medical practice; the local bishop, who frowns on Finerty's slacks; Chela, a mestiza from whom she rents her modest two-room house (complete with scorpions); and the young Cora Indian woman Chuy, from whom she gains insight into her new neighbors.
Blending memoir and travel writing, In a Village Far from Home takes readers deep into the Sierra Madre to reveal its true treasure: the soul of a people.
- Sales Rank: #2441818 in Books
- Brand: Brand: University of Arizona Press
- Published on: 2000-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .60" w x 6.00" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 207 pages
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The name of the village is Jesus Maria. It was so isolated in the eight years Finerty spent time there that only a small plane--or a mule--could get you there. She insists that "It's not a story," but she's wrong. It's quite a story, that of a sixtysomething, retired magazine executive who finds a place where she can be both useful and appreciated. The church is at the middle of Jesus Maria: the mestizos (Mexican with some Indian blood) live upriver, and the Cora Indians downriver. What happens when the rains don't stop and the death of Piedad, a badly burned little girl, provide some of the stories, but the deeper story is how Finerty learns to be nurse and doctor for people who had neither, working with a young Franciscan priest and an old male nurse. Heat and bugs and no electricity or running water are soon brushed impatiently aside: what Finerty did and what she learned in late middle age is simply mesmerizing and, sometimes, both touching and funny. Brava. GraceAnne DeCandido
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"She insists that 'It's not a story,' but she's wrong. It's quite a story, that of a sixtysomething, retired magazine executive who finds a place where she can be both useful and appreciated. . . . Heat and bugs and no electricity or running water are soon brushed impatiently aside: what Finerty did and what she learned in late middle age is simply mesmerizing and, sometimes, both touching and funny. Brava." —Booklist"This gem of a book will keep you spellbound as you follow the author through the daily routines, festivals and traditions of the village people. Little by little, she becomes as one with them and gained their respect and love. In the process, Catherine Palmer Finerty discovered what it was that mattered in life." —La Prensa, San Diego
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What do most career women do after a successful run on Madison Avenue? Catherine Finerty watched her friends settle into the country-club life. She opted instead for Mexico.
When the 60-year-old widow loaded up her car and headed south, what she found at the end of the road was far from what she expected. Finerty settled into a comfortable house just outside of Guadalajara and, although not a Catholic, she soon immersed herself in Franciscan volunteer work. It wasn't long before she found herself visiting small settlements hidden in the tropical mountains of western Mexico, and it was in JesAs MarA-a--so isolated that one could only get there by mule or small plane--that she found her new calling: the village nurse.
With its bugs and heat, no phones or running water, the tiny town was hardly a place to enjoy one's retirement years, but Finerty was quickly charmed by the community of Cora Indians and mestizos. Armed with modest supplies, a couple of textbooks, and common sense, she found herself delivering first aid, advising on public health, and administering injections. And in a place where people still believed in the power of shamans, providing health care sometimes required giving in to the magical belief that a hypodermic needle could cure anything.
Finerty's account of her eight years in JesAs MarA-a is both a compelling story of nursing under adverse conditions and a loving portrait of a people and their ways. She shares the joys and sorrows of this isolated world: religious festivals and rites of passage; the tragedy of illness and death in a place where people still rely on one another as much as medicine; a flash flood that causes such havoc that evenless-than-pious village men attend Mass daily. And she introduces a cast of characters not unlike those in a novel: Padre Domingo and his airborne medical practice; the local bishop, who frowns on Finerty's slacks; Chela, a mestiza from whom she rents her modest two-room house (complete with scorpions); and the young Cora Indian woman Chuy, from whom she gains insight into her new neighbors.
Blending memoir and travel writing, "In a Village Far from Home" takes readers deep into the Sierra Madre to reveal its true treasure: the soul of a people.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
interesting
By David F. Coppin
The book was enthusiastically recommended by a friend who has lived there and knows the author. It did, indeed, give a very nice insight into conditions there, but did not generate in me the same excitement that my friend (who has lived there) has as it records something very dear to her. It is interesting and worth the read, but I read it more from a sense of obligation than true interest.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
An inspiration
By Amazon customer
What started out as a "self-appointed tour of the Franciscan missions" in western Mexico, turned into a stay of 8 years in the small, isolated town of Jesus Maria. The author, a woman of 63 years, found herself placed in the position of administering health care to the Cora Indians and mountain Mexicans who lived in the area - despite the fact that she had no prior medical experience.
Adapting to life in the small community, in the early 1970's, was life changing. Having once lived in New York and worked on Madison Avenue, she was now living in a tiny house, with little more than the basics: towels, sheets, a net over the ceiling to catch scorpions, a kerosene store, and pots and pans. She learned to live on beans, tortillas and coffee, with the occasional fruit, egg or piece of meat.
Much of her story centers around her getting accustomed to her surroundings and the people she dealt with. Also, there is a lot of information on the religious holidays and festivals of the area. But her story telling is at it's best when she opens up her heart to the reader, as she does in the story of the little girl with burns. An inspiring story of how one person can make a difference, even after retirement.
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