Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License

Young Adult

Author: María Amparo Escandón

Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexic….Read More

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