Our Next Project

Our next novel in progress tells the story of Pedro Vásquez, who leaves Mexico in search of a better job. Pedro must earn extra money to send home after his father is injured at work and the family no longer able to pay mortgage, food, or treatment for his sister’s life-threatening cancer. He ends up working evenings under the radar at a Chicago restaurant and night shifts at a plastic cup factory, and he connects with a community of undocumented workers, each with their own story of a hard life and struggle to cross the border to survive. Pedro finds a home in Chicago’s vibrant and magical La Villita (Little Village), known as the cultural Mexico of the Midwest. But then he recognizes Gerald Goodman—a right-wing American pundit whose rants against illegal immigrants as criminals are putting the community at risk—as the gangster he accidentally overheard at the border orchestrating illegal drug operations. Pedro must decide how much he is willing to risk to do the right thing. And what is the right thing when you are pitting the well being of your family against that of your friends and of helping to convict a vile criminal?

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