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Rain of Gold by
5.0
Villaseñor wrote a beautiful family saga, and a true telling about how his family ended up in California. Specifically from el barrio de Carlsbad.
Carlsbad, California is definitely not a barrio anymore, it is now a very sought after and pricy city to live in.
His father, Juan Salvador Villaseñor was raised in the beautiful hills of Los Altos de Jalisco Mexico, before he and his family decided to make their way to the US. They escaped the hunger, lack of jobs, loss of resources, and abuse, left behind during the Mexican Revolution. The same circumstances were true for his mother, Lupe.
Rain of Gold really digs deep into what it was like growing up during a revolution, and getting taken advantage by soldiers, people both from the US and Mexico, and Europeans. It also touches on how the native people were killed, raped, abused, and worked like dogs.
To escape one nightmare and go into a new territory where people still disrespected and mistreated them.
This story is laced with Mexican sayings that are mystical but are simply true in some way or another. Love, strength, and devotion are what kept these people alive and able to persevere when times seemed hopeless.
Carlsbad, California is definitely not a barrio anymore, it is now a very sought after and pricy city to live in.
His father, Juan Salvador Villaseñor was raised in the beautiful hills of Los Altos de Jalisco Mexico, before he and his family decided to make their way to the US. They escaped the hunger, lack of jobs, loss of resources, and abuse, left behind during the Mexican Revolution. The same circumstances were true for his mother, Lupe.
Rain of Gold really digs deep into what it was like growing up during a revolution, and getting taken advantage by soldiers, people both from the US and Mexico, and Europeans. It also touches on how the native people were killed, raped, abused, and worked like dogs.
To escape one nightmare and go into a new territory where people still disrespected and mistreated them.
This story is laced with Mexican sayings that are mystical but are simply true in some way or another. Love, strength, and devotion are what kept these people alive and able to persevere when times seemed hopeless.