The Path of the Jaguar

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As The Path of the Jaguar opens in 1997, Guatemala is emerging from thirty-six years of civil war. Amparo Ajuix, a determined young married woman who lives in a Mayan village with her non-Mayan Guatemalan husband, is optimistic about the future. She is pregnant with her second child. With the help of an American NGO, she runs a savings club for the women in her village with the goal of being able to offer micro-credit loans. Eager to take advantage of Guatemala s new democracy to strengthen the culture of the Mayan people, she campaigns to switch the language of instruction in the village s primary school from Spanish to the local Mayan language of Cakchiquel. But Amparo s life is wracked with tensions. Dona Mar?a, an older woman who is a powerful figure in the village market where Amparo sells her handicrafts, is jealous of Amparo s savings club. Amparo s best friend, Raquel, is a born-again Protestant who disdains Amparo s devout Catholicism. The youngest of Amparo s nine siblings, Yolanda, a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, flirts with foreign men in the nearby tourist town of Antigua. Most seriously of all, Amparo s husband, Eusebio, suspects that he is not the father of Amparo s second child. Even though his suspicions are groundless, the erosion of complicity between them poisons their marriage. - 20160217