Published: University of Wisconsin Press - September 13th, 2016
Charles Monroe-Kane is a natural raconteur, and boy, does he have stories to tell. Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, he grew up hearing voices in his head.
Woven throughout the threads of a family heirloom is the story of Petra's family.
In 1874, Petra's family struggled to scrape out a living sharecropping in Guadalupe County, Texas. When a much older neighbor proposed marriage, Petra accepted knowing that would ease the financial burden on her parents, if only a little. As her family grew, so did Petra's affection for her husband.
Published: University of Arizona Press - October 4th, 2016
Emmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle.
This book explores how my relationship with fear shifted from isolation, loneliness and anger to possibility, strength and joy. I discovered that change is not nearly as painful as living with an unforgivable self. The beautiful aspect of this evolution was my discovery that unconditional love of self and others exposed inherent courage.
