Country of Under
Shaffner, Brooke
Country of Under, winner of the 1729 Book Prize, revolves around the transformative friendship of Pilar Salomé Reinfeld, raised by her undocumented father, a descendent of Bolivian Mennonites, in a Mexican-American community, and Carlos/Carla/Río Gomez, a gender-fluid DREAMer raised by their grandmother in the same Texican bordertown.After years away, tragedy calls them back to the Rio Grande Valley- their lives changed but still bound. Still ...