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American Tumbleweeds
Author: Marta Elva
Narrator: Marta Elva Rangel Gibbons
Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Irie Books
Published: 01/22/2022
Category: Fiction - Hispanic & Latino
Synopsis
Set along the international border between El Paso, Texas, and Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, AMERICAN TUMBLEWEEDS tells the bittersweet story of a Mexican-American family’s struggle to stay together as tradition collides with the social upheaval of 1960s America.Skillfully conveyed through the eyes of Inez, an innocent and vulnerable thirteen-year-old girl, and her family, these characters indeed “tumble” back and forth over our southernmost border. A physical divide caused by the politics of nations separating families. For Inez, life in El Paso is far more exciting as the explosion of rock music and new personal freedom shatter traditions on both sides of the border and inside her family.AMERICAN TUMBLEWEEDS is insightful, timely, and captures poignantly the growing pains of all immigrants whose dual cultural identities lend them both strength and strife.