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The Cost of Our Lives

Linda González

4.4/5 ( ratings)

When Linda Gonzalez is sixteen, her father’s son from a previous marriage appears at the front door of her parent’s suburban California home. Before that moment, neither Linda nor her siblings knew their father had a wife and children in Mexico.

Linda’s family portrait is shattered. She realizes her very existence is because her father abandoned his first family for the second. With startling candor, Linda relates her parents’ separate journeys to Los Angeles and the life they created in the white suburbs.

Family secrets unfold amid Linda’s personal attempts to silence the echoes of inadequacy with political work and a lesbian identity. Her memoir is a powerful examination of how childhood identities can endure into adulthood, along with suffering that lingers decades after events have passed.

González’ fluid language, a smooth blend of English and Spanish, reveals a sweeping journey over several decades. New secrets are unveiled and new relationships forged, often through painful and illuminating encounters with family on both sides of the Rio Grande.

A beautiful, poignant story of families uniting across physical and emotional borders.

Language: English

Pages: 278

Format: Paperback

Publisher: E. L. Marker

Release: February 14, 2018

ISBN: 1937178978

ISBN 13: 9781937178970

The Cost of Our Lives

Linda González

4.4/5 ( ratings)

When Linda Gonzalez is sixteen, her father’s son from a previous marriage appears at the front door of her parent’s suburban California home. Before that moment, neither Linda nor her siblings knew their father had a wife and children in Mexico.

Linda’s family portrait is shattered. She realizes her very existence is because her father abandoned his first family for the second. With startling candor, Linda relates her parents’ separate journeys to Los Angeles and the life they created in the white suburbs.

Family secrets unfold amid Linda’s personal attempts to silence the echoes of inadequacy with political work and a lesbian identity. Her memoir is a powerful examination of how childhood identities can endure into adulthood, along with suffering that lingers decades after events have passed.

González’ fluid language, a smooth blend of English and Spanish, reveals a sweeping journey over several decades. New secrets are unveiled and new relationships forged, often through painful and illuminating encounters with family on both sides of the Rio Grande.

A beautiful, poignant story of families uniting across physical and emotional borders.

Language: English

Pages: 278

Format: Paperback

Publisher: E. L. Marker

Release: February 14, 2018

ISBN: 1937178978

ISBN 13: 9781937178970

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