There may be a town called Santa Catalina, but the one in this book is creation of the author. What is real and happens all over the world is the problem of dogs living on the street. They, like human beings, suffer and their life is a bit similar to the homeless people. This is not a beautiful picture and many turn to look the other way as if not looking would avoid feelings of remorse for not trying to help them. The truth is that many problems could be prevented if we all worked together to help those beings that, for various reasons, end up living without a roof over their heads. We all try to live a life without hardship, however there are many reasons that lead us to failure and we use all necessary means to not fall too low. But dogs, after being domesticated and living for many years with human beings, have learned to depend on them for survival and deserve to live with respect.

Illegals is a novel about a subject that has always been very polemic. The author creates the characters trying to make them look real and human. They are all bonded by one same common situation: forgers of documents, a good lawyer, the coyotes and an immigration agent as well as the different reasons for them to be illegals, a struggle which brings them together until the end of the book.
The characters and their own stories are a work of fantasy of the author, however many people may have lived similar situations or may know someone who has experienced them. In fact, many persons experience this, not only in the United States but also in other countries. Many of them were forced to leave their families and their home countries for different reasons. For those humble workers who come without any malice but with one only idea, which is to work honestly, everything is much easier. Especially when the only arm that they have is their innocence, which sometimes they loose to become cunning in order to run away from the authorities and the people that exploit them and take advantage of their naivet?.

There may be a town called Santa Catalina, but the one in this book is creation of the author. What is real and happens all over the world is the problem of dogs living on the street. They, like human beings, suffer and their life is a bit similar to the homeless people. This is not a beautiful picture and many turn to look the other way as if not looking would avoid feelings of remorse for not trying to help them. The truth is that many problems could be prevented if we all worked together to help those beings that, for various reasons, end up living without a roof over their heads. We all try to live a life without hardship, however there are many reasons that lead us to failure and we use all necessary means to not fall too low. But dogs, after being domesticated and living for many years with human beings, have learned to depend on them for survival and deserve to live with respect.

In this book, Laura Lavayen offers her existence throughout a plain discourse that brings her from the country, the horse and the wind towards the big city of her dreams, the Buenos Aires of the fifties. The tale of the different events assumes an overwhelming routine, that is, a denial of her personal development dream. However, a struggle being the engine of her life is permanently bubbling up in her hearts - her grandmother's proposal: a task of human growth. This story is a chronology of such a growth as well as the materialization, in her way, of said atavistic mandate. It is the story of a life and every life is an unfathomable mystery in which Laura goes riding her horse across the wind.
Hello Buenos Aires.... Goodbye Buenos Aires is the continuation of The Shadow of the Baron. Where the author tells about her childhood and adolescence, in this book she takes us to the nine years she lived in Buenos Aires, a city that was the previous step given before coming to the United States.

Laura Lavayen ofrece su existencia en un discurso sencillo que la trae del campo, del caballo y del viento a la gran ciudad de los suenos, la Buenos Aires de la decada de los cincuenta. El relato de los hechos presupone una rutina de agobio, una negacion de los suenos de desarrollo personal. Pero en el corazon bulle la lucha que es el motor de su vida: lo que su abuela propuso, una tarea humana de crecimiento. Este relato es al cronologia de ese crecimiento, y la concrecion, a su manera, de esa mandato atavico. Es la historia de una vida, y toda vida es un misterio insondable en el cual Laura continua montada en su caballo, atravesando el viento.
Hola Buenos Aires...Chau Buenos Aires es la continuacion de "La Sombra del Baron." En la cual la autora nos cuenta sobre su ninez y adolescencia, en este libro nos lleva de la mano para volver a vivir con ella los nueve anos que vivio en Buenos Aires, que fue la antesala al gran paso de dio antes de venirse a los Estados Unidos.