{"product_id":"golondrina-why-did-you-leave-b-rbara-renaud-gonz-lez-9780292719583","title":"Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRunner-up, Best Popular Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish, the word has evoked a thousand poems and songs dedicated to the migrant's departure and hoped-for return. As such, the migrant becomes like the swallow, a dream-seeker whose real home is nowhere, everywhere, and especially in the heart of the person left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe swallow in this story is Amada Garc?, a young Mexican woman in a brutal marriage, who makes a heart-wrenching decision--to leave her young daughter behind in Mexico as she escapes to \u003ci\u003eel Norte\u003c\/i\u003e searching for love, which she believes must reside in the country of freedom. However, she falls in love with the man who brings her to the Texas border, and the memories of those three passionate days forever sustain and define her journey in Texas. She meets and marries L痙aro Mistral, who is on his own journey--to reclaim the land his family lost after the U.S.-Mexican War. Their opposing narratives about love and war become the legacy of their first-born daughter, Lucero, who must reconcile their stories into her struggle to find \"home,\" as her mother, Amada, finally discovers the country where love beats its infinite wings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eB疵bara Renaud Gonz疝ez, a native-born Tejana and acclaimed journalist, has written a lyrical story of land, love, and loss, bringing us the first novel of a working-class Tejano family set in the cruelest beauty of the Texas panhandle. Her story exposes the brutality, tragedy, and hope of her homeland and helps to fill a dearth of scholarly and literary works on Mexican and Mexican American women in post-World War II Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e B疵bara Renaud Gonz疝ez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292719582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292719583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"B疵bara Renaud Gonz疝ez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056768839935,"sku":"9780292719583","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99051acd-6299-4e4b-9743-e7968ad2c788.jpg?v=1685043167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/golondrina-why-did-you-leave-b-rbara-renaud-gonz-lez-9780292719583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}