All That Rises - 9780816549153

University of Arizona Press

All That RisesA Novel\nAuthor(s): Alma Garca\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Arizona Press, United States\nImprint: University of Arizona Press\nISBN-13: 9780816549153, 978-0816549153\nSynopsis\nIn the border city of El Paso, Texas, two guardedly neighbouring 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 Maries husband, Huck (manager of a maquiladora), and Inezs 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.\n\n What follows is a story in which mysteries are unravelled, odd alliances are forged, and the boundaries between lives blur in destiny-changing ways--all in a place wher.