Jasmine's Rosary Beads

By John Clayton Hale

'Jasmine's Rosary Beads' is a Southern Gothic story about three siblings that decide to leave their country and illegally cross into the United States to make a better life. They are young and na ve to the sentiment of how some people feel for them in their new country. They find out quickly when Jasmine is sexually assaulted by the truck driver who is smuggling them over the border.

The siblings make it to their promised land, but not without wounds and scars. Their first meal on American soil is at a truck stop where they meet Hugh and Patsy Lohan, dairy farmers from a small Texas town. The Lohan's take them in and give them work and a home.

Jasmine finds out she's pregnant from the assault and her brothers meet Johnny and Frankie, two hired hands on the farm who hate Mexicans. They terrorize Juarez and Paco until one day they take it too far. What happens next is a roller coaster of emotional pain and sacrifice.

'Jasmine's Rosary Beads' is a timely story of good and evil. It is not an immigration story; it is an American story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09R39Q7CK
• ISBN13: 9798407970828
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"