The Feminist and the Cowboy

What happens when a raging liberal feminist Latina starts dating a conservative, traditional New Mexican rancher? You get The Feminist and the Cowboy, a turbulent memoir by best-selling writer Alisa Valdes that is by turns thought-provoking and exhausting.

Divorced with a young son, Valdes meets “the cowboy”—that’s what she calls him throughout the book—via an…