A Perfect Silence

This volume is made possible through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Recovering the past, creating the future

Arte Público Press
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-2090

Cover design by Kathryn Vosburg-Seretti
Original art “La Tormenta” by GRONK

Ambert, Alba

A perfect silence / by Alba Ambert.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-55885-125-9

I. Title.

PS3551.M23P47 1995


813’.54—dc20	94-29360
	CIP

The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.

Sections of this book have been published as “Dusks” in The Americas Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1989, and “Losses” in The Americas Review, Vol. 21, Nos. 3 & 4, 1993.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.