This 2022 reissue of The Horse in the Kitchen complements the Spanish translation El caballo en la cocina in 6x9 size and cover design. Born in 1908, two years before the start of the Mexican Revolution, Rafael lives in the village of San Cristóbal, in northern Sonora, Mexico, where his father, the village comisario, owns a bar, pool hall, and grocery store. This is a ranching town where vaqueros are heroes, and horses and bulls, as well as coyotes and rattlesnakes, provide thrills and teach lessons that Rafael and his brothers will never forget. The boy's earliest memories are of mounted revolutionaries riding through town and commandeering horses for Pancho Villa's campesino army. When his parents lose their life savings in the revolution, the family crosses the border to Arizona. Life in the north is a struggle, and young Rafael must put aside his dreams of education and work with his brothers picking lettuce wherever laborers are needed. Based on the boyhood of the author’s father, these vivid stories are touching, funny, and often heart breaking. Those of the Mexican Revolution offer a window into worlds that twenty first-century Americans have never known, though the immigrant experience is universal. The late Rudolfo Anaya said in regard to Ralph's writing, “I’ve always been a fan. Now let’s get NM to read Ralph” (2019). This reissue of this 5x9 version in English is offered in that spirit. RALPH M. FLORES lived in Tomé, New Mexico until his death in 2017. He taught for many years at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. Several books, including this reissue, have been published posthumously by his widow and editor, Geri Rhodes. You can see them on Ralph's author page here:https://www.amazon.com/Ralph-M.-Flores/e/B001KI4MTQ?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000