Ocotillo Dreams
by Palacio, Melinda
Released: 2011
Set in Chandler, Arizona, during the city’s infamous 1997 migrant sweeps, Ocotillo Dreams delivers a wallop that resonates in today’s volatile immigration debate. But this is no run-of-the-mill border-debate tale. In this captivating first novel, author Melinda Palacio skillfully weaves a story of politics, intrigue, love, and trust. Isola, a young woman who inherits her mother’s Chandler home, relocates from California only to find that her mother had lived a secret life of helping undocumented immigrants and that one such immigrant apparently was involved with her.