Today we have an excerpt from Cara Lopez Lee‘s Candlelight Bridge, a historical novel about family heritage during the Mexican and Chinese Revolutions. Published tomorrow, by FlowerSong Press, here’s the synopsis:
In 1910, twelve-year-old Candelaria Rivera and her family flee across the Chihuahuan Desert to America to escape the rising storm of the Mexican Revolution. Meanwhile, twenty-year-old Yan Chi Wong flees the Chinese Revolution and a shattering loss, also bound for America, where he’s nicknamed Yankee.
The unlikely pair meet in El Paso, Texas, where they fight to make a home in a world that does not want them, until a terrible desire threatens to destroy their lives.
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