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Quetzal is the name of the wildly colorful bird of southern Mexico and Central America and long revered by Mesoamerican cultures.

鈥淨uetzal鈥� is the title of Corrales author Andrew Shows鈥� book, strangely subtitled 鈥淢exico Mystery Series Novel.鈥� What Shows is trying to state is that it鈥檚 the first volume of a planned trilogy.

Quetzal is also the given name of the main character in this alluring novel, which is fashioned as the saga of a young boy with special gifts who grows into manhood.

The novel reveals the boy as a survivor and as a hero, but he has it rough from the start.

Shortly before Quetzal鈥檚 birth, his father, a Mexican named Pedro, dies in a fight with the boy鈥檚 mother Maria, who is of Yucatan Mayan descent.

She spied a Quetzal bird she thought was a witness to her son鈥檚 traumatic birth. The bird flies away, leaving behind a luminous tail feather that floats to the ground.

鈥淚t was now that Maria remembered that the Quetzal bird in Mayan meant 鈥榩recious鈥� or 鈥榮acred,鈥� and it was the symbol of goodness to all the Maya,鈥� the story explains.

Maria raised her son by herself in the Yucatan Peninsula鈥檚 jungle for seven years.

She鈥檚 portrayed as a resourceful and emotionally strong woman and mother.

She holds her ground in an encounter with a menacing black jaguar. She shows her self-sufficiency in raising crops of beans and corn in nutritional soil that hadn鈥檛 been tilled for thousands of years.

The book explains that fecal matter of monkeys, birds and other jungle inhabitants enriched the garden鈥檚 topsoil.

Meanwhile, her son Quetzal demonstrates his own special friendship with the jungle鈥檚 denizens and spirits. He has an ability to communicate with and interpret the language of birds.

Over time, Maria teaches her son about many things Mayan 鈥� its legends, its heroes and ancient warriors, its magical creatures, and the names and roles of the Mayan gods, including the foremost Quetzalcoatl, who symbolizes the union of earth and sky. (Quetzalcoatl is featured on the book鈥檚 front cover.)

Her son鈥檚 own powerful memory enables him to remember everything his mother had told him.

At age 7, his mother dies from a bite of a poisonous snake and he鈥檚 now on his own. Quetzal escapes the jungle and jumps in the bed of an old pickup that takes him to M茅rida, the capital city of the Yucatan.

And so begins Quetzal鈥檚 introduction to urban life, where a handful of people perceive his goodness by accepting, befriending and encouraging him.

In the city鈥檚 market, he meets Magdalena, a blind curandera who dispenses remedies. She becomes Quetzal鈥檚 guardian angel.

In the event that authorities question her, she devises a story that she is Quetzal鈥檚 great-aunt. He takes her last name, Hernandez.

When he isn鈥檛 helping Magdalena, Quetzal works for a bird vendor in the market. He would sing to the vendor鈥檚 birds, and in reply, they鈥檇 sing back, which attracts customers.

鈥淏irds knew the songs of daily celebration in the simplest acknowledgement of just being alive. The boy knew these songs, but he only whistled a short while. He was, after all, a shy jungle orphan,鈥� the story says.

The next person who entered Quetzal鈥檚 life is an old priest, a warm friend of Magdalena鈥檚. The priest, Father Francisco, is surprised he never knew Magdalena had a great-nephew. She tells him Quetzal鈥檚 true story.

The priest baptizes Quetzal and secretly backdates his enrollment in the parish church鈥檚 record book under the name Tom谩s Quetzal Hernandez.

The next person who would leave a lasting impression on Quetzal, now 12, would be the disabled Madonna-like beauty Juanita Sanchez.

Quetzal trips up a would-be thief stealing a bank bag from Juanita鈥檚 boutique booths in the market. He humbly returns the bag.

When Juanita learns that Quetzal is illiterate, she arranges to teach him one hour a day. Soon he鈥檚 reading primers. Within months he鈥檚 on his first novel. He鈥檚 also studying math, English and French.

After another year, he鈥檚 reading the epic work 鈥淒on Quixote鈥� to boys in an orphanage.

Quetzal also shows an extraordinary power to see ghosts. That power enables him to save lives.

After Magdalena dies, Quetzal moves into Juanita鈥檚 residence and under care. With her continued instructional support, Quetzal is admitted to San Patricio Academy, a parochial high school for rich kids.

It鈥檚 the first time in his life he attends formal classes and he鈥檚 a success.

At school, he sees the ghost of a pretty teenage girl, Susana Maloney, a former student who allegedly died by suicide years before.

Quetzal asks Francisco, a friend and lone-wolf police detective, to help him find the truth of Susana鈥檚 death. They dig and dig in a twisted, long-developing investigation that leads to the uncovering of another mystery Quetzal helps Francisco solve 鈥� a cache of stolen ancient Mayan artifacts.

Quetzal, now a young man, is a newly minted policeman. He鈥檚 celebrated as a hero for his discovery.

Moments after ceremonies honor his heroics, Quetzal is shot by an unknown assailant.

The shooting concludes the first volume of this trilogy but leaves open for readers to figure out if Quetzal survives the attack.

Shows writes in the prologue that anyone who has traveled the world knows that nothing approaches 鈥渢he mystery and wonder鈥� of the prehistoric art created by ancients of Mexico.

He credits ancient civilizations 鈥� the Mayan, the Aztec, the Toltec, the Mixtec, the Zapotec and the Olmec 鈥� for their contributions.

Shows says his novel pays special tribute to the importance of protecting and preserving the Mayan people and their prehistoric treasures still buried throughout the Yucatan Peninsula.

Reading the novel is slowed by translations of repeated words or phrases from Spanish to English. For example, every time familia appears in the text, it is translated as family. A glossary would have sufficed.