Rain of Gold
Two Mexican families flee the Revolution and remake their lives in California, told by the son they produced.
Victor Villaseñor’s saga of his own family, told as a novel. It follows his mother’s and his father’s families from the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution north across the border into California, where they work in mines and fields, run from the law and build new lives. Drawn from years of interviews with his relatives, it is an epic of Mexican immigration to the United States.
Recommended by 1 Person
Cecile Richards
This has been a favourite of mine for a while, but it’s definitely off the radar of most people so I also want to highlight it for people who don’t know about it. I think it’s a great book. It’s kind of a semi-autobiographical novel but it’s basically about the migration of Mexican families to the US, families that get to California.
Interview · July 2011
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