Big Dreams and Heartaches

"This compelling, factually-based novel reveals hardships encountered by Mexican Americans and US citizens during 1930s and 1940s in the Hispanic barrios and the US military, before and during WWII. Life of sixteen-year-old Rita Garcia gives us an up front and personal view of the military base life as she tries to find housing for her family when her father is deployed overseas.

Her efforts land them in a migrant workers camp where she suffers beatings and almost raped.

Later, they found housing in a gang-ruled barrio, where she was kidnapped and gang raped.

It will leave you gasping for breath."