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Published when American writer Harriet Doerr was seventy-three, her debut novel, Stones for Ibarra (1983), follows middle-aged Californian couple Richard and Sara Everton as they relocate to the Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine once operated by Richard’s grandfather, navigating cross-cultural misunderstandings and the gradual realization of Richard's terminal illness. The novel addresses alcoholism, murder, disability, and terminal illness.