There are 3 books in the The New Mexico Trilogy series. The newest book is The Nirvana Blues which came out in 1981.

The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico Trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” ―The New York Times Book Review)

Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch…

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The Magic Journey

Book cover of The Magic Journey

Spanning forty years, The Magic Journey tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown.

Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with…

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The Nirvana Blues

The Nirvana Blues
The new and affluent with-it residents of the northern New Mexico town of Chamisaville, a microcosm of American society, are into organic food, eastern mysticism, good dope, and serial monogamy