Name: Rain of Gold
ISBN: 9781611922578

Victor Villaseñor

Victor Vellasenor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries...bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother--men and women in whose lives the real and the fantastical exist side by side...

Rain of Gold

Víctor E. Villaseñor

Dana Kraft

I really enjoyed this book, even more so because it is non-fiction. I feel like Mexican migration to the US is painted with such a broad brush, it was nice to read a real story and gain some understanding about that from the early part of the 1900s. That being said, I never felt like I was reading a history book. It reads like a good story. In some places it reminded me of "The Warmth of Other Suns" which is about African American migration.

My favorite quote is from Doña Margarita towards the end:
"This life that you and Lupe are about to begin has only the value you place on it, not the value the Church gives it, or what we, the parents give it, or even society. It's value is what you two agree upon giving it. And given full value, marriage is then indeed a return to Eden, and you two are, indeed, the first man and woman on earth. Marriage isn't sex, mi hijito, it isn't even having children. Sex and children can be had all life long without marriage."

Rain of Gold

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