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When Rose Castillo Guilbault was five years old, she and her recently divorced mother crossed the border from Nogales, Sonora, to Nogales, Arizona, and boarded a Greyhound bus that would carry them to California's Salinas Valley and a new life.

In this affectionate memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming c... More

When Rose Castillo Guilbault was five years old, she and her recently divorced mother crossed the border from Nogales, Sonora, to Nogales, Arizona, and boarded a Greyhound bus that would carry them to California's Salinas Valley and a new life.

In this affectionate memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent 1960s. With openness, courage, and charm, she recalls her early struggles to learn English, to fit in with schoolmates with their Barbie dolls and cupcakes, to win approval, and to bridge the tensions between home life and the public world to which she was drawn.


Reviews
"A memoir bursting with bright, crisp observations." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"An affectionate story and a compelling one, full of poignant, powerful description." -- Christian Science Monitor

"I do not know another book that tells us so simply quite so much about Mexico and America." -- Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America

A San Francisco Chronicle "Best Books of 2005"

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