{"product_id":"jillian-in-the-borderlands-paperback","title":"Jillian in the Borderlands - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBeth Alvarado\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she creates survival maps for border crossers and paints murals at the Casa de los Olvidados, a refuge in Sonora run by the traditional healer Juana of God. These darkly funny tales, focusing on Mexican-American, Euro-American, and Mexican characters, feature visionary experiences, ghosts, faith healers, a deer's head that speaks, a dog who channels spirits of the dead-and a young woman whose drawings begin to create realities instead of just reflecting them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeth Alvarado is a prose writer, teacher, and desert dweller. \u003ci\u003eJillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales\u003c\/i\u003e is her fourth book. \"Alvarado's use of many voices,\" one reviewer writes, \"challenges the tendency to make stories of people and places linear and from a single perspective.\" In Alvarado's nonfiction, she has written extensively about her experiences as a Euro-American woman marrying into her late husband's Mexican American family when she was 19 years old. She spent most of her life in Tucson, Arizona, and now lives in the high desert of central Oregon. Her essay collection, \u003ci\u003eAnxious Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e, won a 2020 Oregon Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50466877178093,"sku":"9781625578211","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/jillian-in-the-borderlands-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}