"Stella Pope Duarte is a writer who will not be stopped. Her story takes its power from a larger love, and the quest here is as pressing as any I've read. This is a novel that looks at a rocky, uncertain time, with the intention of helping. It does."   - Ron Carlson, author of The Hotel Eden and At the Jim Bridge An inspiring novel about family, the memories of war, and a woman who valiantly rallies herself and those she loves into reconciling...

Mama Fela, a skilled seamstress, is the aging matriarch of the Romero clan in Santa Lucia, a small town in northeastern New Mexico at the height of the Great Depression. Her six-year-old granddaughter and constant companion, Cipriana, delights in the Shirley Temple movies that occasionally come to the town's theater. Through Cipriana's eyes, we see her parents' struggles over money. Graciela, Cipriana's mother, is a teacher in a rural school system...

Two young Mexican American migrant workers in California find hope in love, despite the poverty and social conditions in which they live.

Juan Ramirez chronicles the experiences he had while serving two tours of duty in the Vietnam War and discusses how his family's military experience influenced his decision to enlist, how he recovered from his wounds, and how he dealt with survivor's guilt.

"There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished,...

Robert Lomos, a sixteen-year-old Mexican American boy, plans on saving money and reuniting his troubled family.

A young ranch hand helps a family deal with the painful secrets they are hiding in their pasts.

A bilingual collection of poems in which the Mexican American poet revisits his childhood memories of fall in the city and growing up in Los Angeles.

Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.