Nowhere Near the Sea of Cortez Author:Jim Harris A phone call reunites Jacob Belmo and his cousin Dorina after fifteen years apart. Dorina has been unjustly imprisoned for shooting a naked lawyer in a parking lot, but Dorina isn't angry. She just wants to talk about old times. The most magical time of their lives was the summer of 1969, when Dorina was ten and Jacob was twelve. Neither of them... more » could ever forget the people of the little town of Darwin's Ferry: Leonard and Nettie Downs, their crazy old grandparents, George, the angriest poet in the world, the historian, Delancey, who had come home to Darwin's Ferry hoping to make peace with his daughter before he died, and of course, Betsy, sweet fifteen and the object of Jacob's heartfelt desire. Then there was the matter of Dorina's dead baby brother wrapped up in a blanket in the basement, and the local game warden, mean as a snake, who had gunned down Leonard Down's oldest friend and was just waiting for the right moment to gun down Leonard...« less