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Jillian in the Borderlands - by Beth Alvarado (Paperback)

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  • Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
  • About the Author: Beth Alvarado is a prose writer, teacher, and desert dweller.
  • 176 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Magical Realism

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About the Book



"Jillian Guzmâan, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she creates survival maps for border crossers and paints murals at the Casa de los Olvidados, a refuge in Sonora run by the traditional healer Juana of God. These darkly funny tales, focusing on Mexican-American, Euro-American, and Mexican characters, feature visionary experiences, ghosts, faith healers, a deer's head that speaks, a dog who channels spirits of the dead--and a young woman whose drawings begin to create realities instead of just reflecting them."--Publisher's description.



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Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she creates survival maps for border crossers and paints murals at the Casa de los Olvidados, a refuge in Sonora run by the traditional healer Juana of God. These darkly funny tales, focusing on Mexican-American, Euro-American, and Mexican characters, feature visionary experiences, ghosts, faith healers, a deer's head that speaks, a dog who channels spirits of the dead-and a young woman whose drawings begin to create realities instead of just reflecting them.



About the Author



Beth Alvarado is a prose writer, teacher, and desert dweller. Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales is her fourth book. "Alvarado's use of many voices," one reviewer writes, "challenges the tendency to make stories of people and places linear and from a single perspective." In Alvarado's nonfiction, she has written extensively about her experiences as a Euro-American woman marrying into her late husband's Mexican American family when she was 19 years old. She spent most of her life in Tucson, Arizona, and now lives in the high desert of central Oregon. Her essay collection, Anxious Attachments, won a 2020 Oregon Book Award.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .44 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Magical Realism
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Beth Alvarado
Language: English
Street Date: October 1, 2020
TCIN: 1006604968
UPC: 9781625578211
Item Number (DPCI): 247-36-2527
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.44 pounds
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