*Thrilled* to finally share the COVER of my forthcoming YA novel, BORDERLESS!
I'll say it again and again, but this is the book I needed as a young person!
A book about a teenage girl in Guatemala City
A book about a mother and daughter striving for more
A book about immigration in a way that defies the single story
A book about friendship, Trashion, first love
A book about impossible choices in the face of unfathomable danger
And this COVER! I have never ever ever seen a book with a QUETZAL on the cover (national bird in Guatemala) in this way and my heart swells every time I look at it.
Thanks to Krystal Quiles for the breathtakingly beautiful illustration.
Aaaah!
We're doing this! February 7, 2023! Let's go!
The *single most important* thing you can do to help support me is to pre-order the book today.
Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US border in this heart-wrenching young adult novel from the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From.
For seventeen-year-old Maya, trashion is her passion, and her talent for making clothing out of unusual objects landed her a scholarship to Guatemala City’s most prestigious art school and a finalist spot in the school’s fashion show. Mamá is her biggest supporter, taking on extra jobs to pay for what the scholarship doesn’t cover, and she might be even more excited than Maya about what the fashion show could do for her future career.
So when Mamá doesn’t come to the show, Maya doesn’t know what to think. But the truth is worse than she could have imagined. The gang threats in their neighborhood have walked in their front door—with a boy Maya considered a friend, or maybe more, among them. After barely making their escape, Maya and her mom have no choice but to continue their desperate flight all the way through Guatemala and Mexico in hopes of crossing the US border.
