{"product_id":"9798987727720","title":"Pescadero","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAMONG THE BEST INDIE LITERARY FICTION OF THE YEAR-\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFINALIST 2025-\u003cstrong\u003eNext Generation Indie Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"A powerful story of dislocation.\"- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"A quietly moving novel ... raw and impactful.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eThe BookLife Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Impressively original, exceptionally compelling, thoroughly engaging...\"- \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Special moments of humanness that feel very tender ...\" -\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriter's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Storytelling at its finest.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eIndependent Book Publishers Association, Awards Judge\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat compels someone to attempt to cross a brutal and unforgiving desert in search of a better life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply moving novel, a Midwest girl bears witness to-and then becomes entangled in-the struggles of two undocumented brothers caught on opposite sides of the US\/Mexico border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen-year-old Hilde, raised on a family farm in Wisconsin, is dragged to the northern California coastal town of Pescadero by a mother fleeing a bad marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Pescadero is worlds away from the conservative Midwest, and Hilde finds herself adrift in a community where all the attitudes she absorbed growing up seem oddly off-key.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her mother hires an undocumented farmworker to tend the goat farm the family is trying to revive, Hilde strikes up an unlikely friendship with him and learns of his plan to bring his brother across the Border. But the brother's journey turns calamitous, and Hilde soon becomes engulfed in its harrowing aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palo Alto Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42967786618941,"sku":"9798987727720","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9798987727720_p0.jpg?v=1771590596","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9798987727720","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}