The University of Arizona Press
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Time: 9:30 am PST/10:30 MST
Where: Listen here
Alma García, author of All That Rises, will be interviewed by Daniel , author of Kafka in a Skirt, on the “Words on a Wire” radio show/podcast.
About All That Rises:
In the border city of El Paso, Texas, two guardedly neighboring families have plunged headlong into a harrowing week. Rose Marie DuPre, wife and mother, has abandoned her family. On the doorstep of the Gonzales home, long-lost rebel Inez appears. As Rose Marie’s husband, Huck (manager of a maquiladora), and Inez’s brother, Jerry (a college professor), struggle separately with the new shape of their worlds, Lourdes, the Mexican maid who works in both homes, finds herself entangled in the lives of her employers, even as she grapples with a teenage daughter who only has eyes for el otro lado—life, American style.
