Blended Borders: A Novel
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About the Book
Set amidst the Salvadoran civil war and the turmoil of Reagan’s America in the early 1980’s, Blended Borders is an epic novel spanning three lives, two continents, and four decades. Juanita Velasquez, a 19-year-old refugee, escapes from El Salvador only to lose her son in America. Computer whiz Cody Barton drops out of the University of Texas to pursue the video game design frontier even if it means abandonment by his tycoon father and a guaranteed shot in the American Dream. Ralph White, age 30, African-American, and laid-off auto worker, migrates to Texas to do whatever it takes to support his family.
About the Author
Over the past four decades Peter Cox mopped the floor at Dunkin' Donuts, worked in a candle factory, framed homes, back-packed through Europe, hitched-hike to the West Coast, hopped a freight train across Canada, wrote for the U-Mass Daily Collegian, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in South America, functioned as a paralegal in a refugee office on the Tex-Mex border, earned a M.A. in economics from the University of Texas, organized tenant unions in Salem, Massachusetts, and worked as an urban planner in Irvine, California. He has published several novels including Donuts, Missing Faith, On the Run with Jack Frost, and Blended Borders (Xlibris.com). Presently, he is making ends meet, persevering in the Great Recession and (trying to) keeping hope alive.