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In August 1914, recently orphaned Cooper Harrison arrives in El
Paso to live with grandparents she's never met. The minute the
fifteen-year-old steps off the train, everything seems wrong. The
heat is stifling, her grandfather Luther is cold and appraising
and, worse, doesn't even mention the recent loss of both parents.
Her grandmother, Angelica, is remote and child-like and wears only
black and diamonds. When Cooper asked to come live with her
grandparents, she wanted to help in the family antique business and
soon shows her aptitude for the field. But, she discovers that
Luther not only runs a shady concern but also profits from the
Mexican Revolution smuggling arms across the border. Luther leaves
for Mexico with a wagonload of bullets hidden in sacks of corn and
is kidnapped by Pancho Villa's men. Cooper realizes she's the only
one to carry the ransom to Villa's camp. She meets a Hollywood
actor and cameraman - in El Paso to film Villa's life - and
convinces them to join her in the attempt to rescue her
grandfather. The ensuing adventure takes the reader on wild ride
deep into the Mexican countryside.
Pat Carr may be the only person in the United States who spent her
childhood next door to a Japanese relocation camp in Wyoming in the
1940s, grew up to pass for black in 1950s Texas, started teaching
college in the Jim Crow South of the 1960s, and crossed paths with
scores of other authors over half a century's journey as a
professional writer. But universal truth is found in every writer's
singular experience, and Carr's memoir illuminates the path for
others who have chosen the writing life. "Everything we do,
everywhere we've been, influences us," Carr believes. Pacing her
revealing memoir as a series of single-page episodes, she offers
distilled glimpses of the people, places, and moments that made a
lasting impression and provided the fabric and fuel of her writing.
At the same time Carr's pages reveal her attempts to find the
authentic centers of her life: relationships with family, friends,
lovers, fellow writers; struggles with racial and gender
discrimination; and above all her writing identity.
When seventeen-year-old, white Berneen O'Brien moves to Tulsa and takes a job at a segregated elementary school, she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of her black colleagues and shares their experiences during the deadly race riot that destroys Greenwood in 1921.
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