Pa'l Otro Lado

Pal Otro Lado, a prequel to Mariguano, spans five generations of violence and tragedy in the Cortina family while narrating their forced migration to the United States from Northern Mexico. It is the tale of every working-class family who has come to realize that you just cant win. Hunger and poverty drive the characters in this novel to abandon all hopes of attaining the American Dream and to resign themselves simply to survive. Pal Otro Lado is full of the baddest hombres and the nastiest women we all know, love, and call family.