Host Daniel Chacon invites El Paso native Alma Garcia into the Poets’ Cove to discuss her new novel, All That Rises (University of Arizona Press 2023).
In the border city of El Paso, Texas, two guardedly neighboring families have plunged headlong into a harrowing week. Rose Marie DuPre, wife and mother, has abandoned her family. On the doorstep of the Gonzales home, long-lost rebel Inez appears. As Rose Marie’s husband, Huck (manager of a maquiladora), and Inez’s brother, Jerry (a college professor), struggle separately with the new shape of their worlds, Lourdes, the Mexican maid who works in both homes, finds herself entangled in the lives of her employers, even as she grapples with a teenage daughter who only has eyes for el otro lado—life, American style. All That Rises is about secrets, lies, border politics, and discovering where you belong—within a family, as well as in the world beyond. It is a novel for the times we live in, set in a place many people know only from the news.
Additional Information/Links:
- For more information about All That Rises visit: https://almagarciaauthor.com/book/
- For more information about Garciavisit: https://almagarciaauthor.com/about/
- Or visit her social media:
- X (Twitter): @Writer_Alma
- Instagram: @almagarciaauthor
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Originally aired on January 14, 2023
