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?An ingenious retelling of Scheherazade?s odyssey?but on wheels.? ?Ilan Stavans
Three Rivers Press
April 2005
304 pages ISBN: 1400097355 Trade Size
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Contemporary
Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González
finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library
Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she
can find in the prison’s meager supply. The story that
emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed
on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor
and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents
himself as a trucker in the United States. There he falls
in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and
his life—that is until Joaquín González unexpectedly finds
himself alone on the road with a baby girl and González &
Daughter Trucking Co. is born. Joaquín and his daughter
make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing
everything—adventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories
of the girl’s mother—until one day the girl grows into a
woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to
rebel against another. With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female
prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. In
González and Daughter Trucking Co., bestselling author
María Amparo Escandón seamlessly blends together these
elements into one compelling and unexpected conclusion that
will have you cheering for Libertad and filled with joy.
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