Major Themes
- Life in a close and, in many respects, closed community.
- Family relationships: falling in and out with one another.
- Non-sexual but close male friendship.
- The lifelong tempestuous love affair, which includes prolonged periods of non-communication, with Liza Queripel. They have had many sexual liaisons and, somehow, seem to agree that sleeping together would be to make ordinary. This plays out the truth that many of the most enduring love relationships are those that are never consummated.
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