Pescadero

AMONG THE BEST INDIE LITERARY FICTION of 2024 -- Kirkus ReviewsA quietly moving novel ... raw and impactful. -- The BookLife PrizeA powerful story of dislocation. -- Publishers WeeklyImpressively original exceptionally compelling thoroughly engaging... -- Midwest Book ReviewSpecial moments of humanness that feel very tender ... -- Writer's Digest. Fourteen-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.. But 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.. When 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.