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Written & performed by Tony Cohan - Abridged Fiction - 3 CASSETTES - 5 hours

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (January 2000)

"For Tony Cohan, Mexico is a place where the human spirit breathes freely in prolific forms--some sad and funny, some bizarre and touching, all sharply rendered by his alert eye and graceful prose. What a pleasure it is to be guided through this good story of a couple making a life there." --Michael Ryan, author of Secret Life

"A brief escape from the hectic life of Los Angeles to a small Mexican town slowly and inexorably changes novelist Cohan and his artist wife. Cohan is poetic in his descriptions of the vibrancy of life, the serenity of the pace of activity, the simplicity of priorities, and the attentiveness of human relationships in Mexico. Humorous and enviable for the adventure and sheer joy of adopting a new language, culture, and lifestyle." --Booklist

"With breathtaking skill Tony Cohan evokes Mexico's mystical depths and America's thirst for soul. He blurs the line in the sand we call 'the border,' revealing the richness of life we miss by being distant neighbors." --Soledad Santiago, author of Streets of Fire

"Like Mexico itself, On Mexican Time is a spectacle of sights, scents, and sounds. Shaped by Cohan's imaginative and vivid prose, colors, aromas, and sounds leap, waft, and resonate from the page." --Sandra Benitez, author of A Place Where the Sea Remembers and Bitter Grounds

When Los Angeles-based novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife Masako visited central Mexico one winter, they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air.

Awakened to needs they didn't know they had, they returned to California, sold their house, and cast off for a new life in San Miguel de Allende. On Mexican Time is Cohan's passionate, evocatively written memoir of how he and his wife found a new home and a new lease on life in this charming 16th century hill town.

In an alternately humorous and poignant narrative, Cohan recounts how they absorb the town's sensual ambiance, eventually find and refurbish a crumbling 250-year old house, and become entwined in the endless drama of Mexican life. From peso devaluations and water shortages to the local legend of a man who was "killed twice" and the romantic entanglements of their handyman. On Mexican Time captures the indelible characters, little tragedies, and curious incidences of life in a distinctive Mexican town. At the same time it enfolds readers into the delights of one of the world's most desirable travel destinations.

Brimming with mystery, joy and hilarity, On Mexican Time is a stirring, seductive celebration of another way of life a tale of Americans who, finding a home in Mexico, find themselves anew.

About the Author: Tony Cohan has written on travel in Mexico, Guatemala, Morocco and California for L.A. Style, Westways, La Mode en Peinture (France), and other magazines. He has written the text for Sacred and Secular : Photographs of Mexico and Mexicolor. His book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. He is the editor and publisher of Acrobat Books, a twenty-two year old independent press specializing in quality nonfiction books in the arts. Chair of Mexico PEN'S Freedom to Write Committee, he lives in Venice, California and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.