The Treasure of Sergeant Gutierrez

Two generations two wars and three cultures intertwine in the southwest United States Mexico and Italy as as a Mexican-American family struggles to define itself in <i>The Treasure of Sergeant Guiterrez</I>.</P>Fortunata feels like a tumbleweed without her children but knows what spirit flows through their veins. After all as a teenager Fortunata left home to fight beside Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Fortunata's son Francisco born during his mother's days as a Villista carries two cultures and two languages into World War II as part of an exclusively Mexican-American infantry. Her daughter Rub�� the product of Fortunata'slove for a Tarahumara Indian joins a traveling band and falls in love with a zoot-suited musician.</p>Meanwhile in Chihuahua Mexico Fortunata's brother Pablo and his family maintain ties with the Tarahumara Indians and with Robrika Rub��'s father. Pablo's daughter Mercedes is following in her Aunt Fortunata's footsteps with her rebellious ways as family history begins to repeat itself.</P><I>The Treasure of Sergeant Gutierrez</I> chronicles family stories on both sides of the Rio Grande where bloodlines are stronger than borders.