"For over a century, outsiders have been flocking to Northern New Mexico and finding something in the landscape and people that moves them deeply. This account of idealistic hippies retreating from the world to an isolated Hispano village in Northern New Mexico evokes with tender strokes the experience of one family that took deep root and found, through hard labor and open hearts, magic, heartbreak and wonder. But Adelma's story goes beyond that, taking a deep dive into the heartbreak of losing that magical realm and the shattering disruption of its childhood delights—a trajectory all too common among counterculture and back-to-the-landers in Northern New Mexico. Its elegiac tone serves well in the central theme of Adelma's love for and loss of her father and their shared deep bond to the land. Throughout the story, the land beacons and offers refuge and renewal—a place of solace to soothe Adelma's soul."

"Adelma's reflections speak to another world that still exists in New Mexico, leaving this reader marveling at the family's ability to transcend place, time and tragedy and live in such a remote and challenging environment. It is not only appropriate for lovers of memoir, but also for anyone who wants to learn more about the nuts-and-bolts beauty and sacrifice of living on, and within, the New Mexican landscape, and about the rich layers of multiculturalism that make it unique."

"I just this minute completed reading your extraordinary manuscript wherein you constantly reveal the meaning of querencia, a Spanish word with no clear English language equivalent. It is also a wonderful tribute to some of the highest aspirations of the counterculture movement which your parents embodied. It gives profound meaning to the term, 'perseverance furthers,' found in the I Ching that provides both a moral compass and means to reckon the proper trail through often conflicting circumstances… Adelma Aurora's prose is poetry to my ancient eyes, and the state of mind this manuscript evokes lies at the heart of the sort of system of attitudes that I regard as necessary as we proceed through the present into a particularly challenging time ahead."

"You are literally making me fall back in love with reading again. Resolana is so clearly an outpouring of your entire heart and soul. And it goes directly into the reader's. It transports me"