Maruca La Chapina (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798888323953)

Maruca La Chapina is a story of a young girl growing up in rural Guatemala. This is about the adventures she and her family experienced in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. A Latin American girl, a fortunate girl with a mother and a father, who's been taught about God and his infinite love for her.

She is the product of two cultures, an indigenous tribe living in Central America and Spanish Europeans. The family struggles to survive, keep their faith and family together, despite tropical diseases and poisonous animals, in a warm, rugged, beautiful, and fertile land. This book also discusses a brief history from the arrival of Spanish Europeans and the wars with indigenous tribes in Central America through Guatemala's independence day to modern-day life in Guatemala's capital, Guatemala City.