title: The Tafoya Women
author: Sanchez, Anthony J., III
description: "The Tafoya Women" is the story of three generations of heroic women in Spain. Each woman's adventure is wrapped around a plot involving a Catholic Monk and Adana Tafoya, and their entry into a Barcelona Ballroom Dance Contest. The contest portends an unique, sexually exciting, and surprising contemporary adventure. Will his wild sexual temptation for Adana make Brother Louis revoke his faith, or will he honor his sacred oath to God and to his church? Each Tafoya woman has an epic life worthy of Homeric Poetry, beginning with Senora Agustina Tafoya, who witnesses the historic meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco in 1940. All of the succeeding Tafoya women are born into a hostile world that constantly tests them by foisting one tragedy after another upon them. They meet each challenge head-on, which serves to make them become stronger and more determined to make a success of themselves. "The Tafoya Women" is an exploration into how these mere women, cursed since the sin of Eve, learn how to survive through their courage, initiative, tenacity, sexuality, and strength of character. Each hardship thrown at them is faced head on, with the conviction that they will eventually triumph by their sheer willingness to succeed, no matter the cost. Their response to each tragedy is an heroic display of the wonder of the human spirit in a broken world.