THE STORY
Pescadero
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ABOUT THE BOOK
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A Midwest girl bears witness to–and then becomes engulfed in–the struggles of two migrant brothers separated by an implacable border.
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD HILDE, raised on a family farm in Wisconsin, is dragged to the northern California coastal town of Pescadero by a mother fleeing a bad marriage.
But Pescadero is worlds away from the conservative Midwest, and Hilde finds herself adrift in a community where every attitude she absorbed growing up seems off-key.
When her mother hires an undocumented farmworker to tend the goat farm the family is trying to revive, Hilde strikes up an unlikely friendship with him and soon learns of his plan to bring his brother across the border. But the brother’s journey turns calamitous, and Hilde soon finds herself entangled in its harrowing aftermath.
$14.99 paperback
274 pages
6″ x 9″
ISBN 9798987727720
About HollIS Brady
“I BELIEVE in the power of story. As a developmental editor and former director of the Stanford Publishing Courses, I’ve spent a lifetime digging out, poring over, and working with stories—the best of which have profoundly touched me and changed my worldview. Such stories—powerful, evocative and absorbing—have been instrumental in motivating me to finish my own novel Pescadero.
Pescadero is a work of fiction. The characters and story arc are imagined, but the descriptions of what today’s migrants experience as they attempt to cross America’s southern border are largely
true. The details have been shared with me personally during my experiences with undocumented families and those who support them at the border in Juarez, Nogales, and San Ysidro; and in Pescadero, California. I’ve listened to many disturbing stories, walked desert paths, accompanied asylum seekers to court, and interviewed those charged with detaining and deporting migrants, all while researching this book.
Take a look at the gallery of images below taken during my work on the border, details of which have made their way into this story.”
CONTACT
Hollis Brady
holly@hollybrady.com
