ABOUT THE BOOK
What compels someone to attempt to cross a brutal and unforgiving desert in search of a better life?
In this deeply moving novel, a Midwest girl becomes entangled in the struggles of two undocumented brothers caught on opposite sides of the US/Mexico border.
*Starred review, Kirkus Reviews*
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD HILDE, raised on a family farm in Wisconsin, is dragged to the northern California coastal town of Pescadero by a mother fleeing a bad marriage.
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But Pescadero is worlds away from the conservative Midwest, and Hilde finds herself adrift in a community where every attitude she absorbed growing up seems off-key.
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When her mother hires an undocumented farmworker to tend the goat farm the family is trying to revive, Hilde strikes up an unlikely friendship with him and soon learns of his plan to bring his brother across the border. But the brother’s journey turns calamitous, and Hilde soon finds herself entangled in its harrowing aftermath.
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$14.99 paperback
264 pages
6″ x 9″
ISBN 9798987727720
