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A friend in Sitka brought her onto a local woman’s sailboat, where she served a group dinner of roasted chicken and tarte Tatin.

In the book, when you talk about the tatin and how tatin was your nemesis for a long time.

Get fancy with a quasi tarte tatin.

While an actual tarte tatin is a bit of a process, this shortcut version nearly approaches the heights of the classic.

As Tatín shops, she hails townspeople, and you grasp that these streets and this scene — along with the agave, the blazing sun and the rich red earth — describe, better than any genre label could, María, her world and this striking movie.