Where We Come from

Where We Come from

Oscar Casares
$38.39
Publication Date: December 25th, 2019
Publisher:
Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN:
9781432872069
Pages:
411

Description

The towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations -- on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents -- and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives -- and where he is being forced to stay after his mother's sudden death. Nina is providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another.�Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. But Orly's arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure.

About the Author

OSCAR CÁSARES is the author of Brownsville, a collection of stories that was an American Library Association Notable Book, and the novel Amigoland. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Copernicus Society of America, and the Texas Institute of Letters. Originally from Brownsville, he now lives in Austin with his family and teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.