I have a novel out, "Some Rivers End on the Day of the Dead." It is multicultural coming-of-age and a book club favorite.
Fourteen year old Marisol leaves her home in Tijuana, Mexico, when her journalist father is killed. She and her mother settle into a homeless encampment under an oak tree. When a wild fire breaks out, she is separated from her family and school, and decides she must return to celebrate El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Mexico.
Fourteen year old Marisol leaves her home in Tijuana, Mexico, when her journalist father is killed. She and her mother settle into a homeless encampment under an oak tree. When a wild fire breaks out, she is separated from her family and school, and decides she must return to celebrate El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Mexico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPTBpb... (book trailer)