Arden and Anya Rothstein, mother and daughter, live in New York City. Arden is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice and a Faculty member at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, NYU Medical Center where she is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. Anya is a high school student at the Poly-Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York whose hobby is photography.

In 1998 Arden took her family to Oaxaca to share beloved memories of three teenage summers spent there forty years earlier. Her love for and fascination with the area -- especially its folk artist families -- were rekindled. Intrigued by visiting pueblos and meeting artists in their homes, Anya (almost exactly the age at which Arden first traveled to Oaxaca) joins in preserving its artistic tradition and treasures in photographs. In the course of preparing this book they have stayed in the same lovely home and eaten the same fabulous food prepared by the same loving cook of Arden’s teenage years. Most importantly, this project has served as their justification for "having" to make many pilgrimages to a place they adore.