Girls from Centro

By Juni Fisher

Book Overview

North of the Mexican border, survival has a price.

Teresa sells souvenirs to tourists in the marketplace in Centro, the heart of Nogales, and feeds her father's fighting roosters. It's all she's ever known. When a letter promises a better life in the United States for Teresa, her mother, and her sisters, they leave home under cover of darkness, like so many before them.
Ana, a young, single mother, cooks at a convent and orphanage until she receives an offer she can't refuse from a wealthy employer in Arizona. She walks away from the convent, her religion, and Centro, swearing never to return.
For two women, a generation apart, a border fence and bone-littered desert are the least of what separates subsisting in Sonora from surviving in Arizona.
In her debut novel, Fisher crafts a richly textured, multi-layered story of depravity, family bonds, and sacrifice for women who dare to dream of life beyond borders.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683131789
• ISBN13: 9781683131786
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Pen-L Publishing
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"