Esperanza’s Box of Saints
#1 Los Angeles Times Best Seller
“Esperanza’s Box of Saints fills our souls with colors and flavors.”
Laura Esquivel, Author of “Like Water for Chocolate
“Esperanza’s road trip of self-discovery will no doubt evoke many smiles… An enchanting read that soon gets under your skin. Read the book… it’s real magic.”
Wall Street Journal
“A funny, romantic road trip that explores the seedy border culture of Mexico and Southern California.”
Newsweek
“Funny, offbeat and bold… definitely a new landmark in Latin American literature.”
Jorge Ramos, Univision
“A journey that explores the nature of sin and absolution, the pain of loss and the resurrection of desire.”
John Sayles
“A highly original, beautifully written, and heartwarming tale.”
Tony Hillerman
“A charming and compassionate fable.”
Carolyn See
González & Daughter Trucking Co.
“Entirely enjoyable… The novel has abundant black humor that comes across as a sly wink from the author… Escandón has created such a sympathetic and attractive personality in Libertad that I found myself rooting for [her].”
Los Angeles Times
“Libertad González mirrors her creator, María Amparo Escandón, in that both are prodigious storytellers, and as readers we mirror Libertad’s fellow prisoners in our urgent need to know what’s going to happen next. This is a warm and ingenious novel that delights from start to finish.”
Alexander Payne, director and screenwriter of “Sideways”
“Escandón has delivered us yet another work of art. This time it is a whimsical, humorous and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run. Libertad, a well-educated Mexican-American young woman, is in a surreal prison in Mexicali and no one knows why. Her father is a Literature professor running from a murderous past, driving his truck and changing identities all over the United States. In ‘González & Daughter Trucking Co.’ freedom is a state of mind.”
Jorge Ramos, author of “The Other Face of America”, and Univision Anchor
“In this novel filled with humor and wisdom, María Amparo Escandón narrates the accidental lives of a group of profoundly human characters. Weaving a story where tragedy crashes with the will to live and tell, the author makes us laugh, cry and celebrate the ties that women have, even in the most difficult circumstances.”
Gioconda Belli, author of “The Country Under My Skin”
“1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison. María Amparo Escandón’s beautifully-written novella invites us to do time with a population of hard-luck sisters sentenced to ponder the comedies and tragedies of their own lives González & Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”
John Sayles, author and filmmaker of “Lone Star”
“An ingenious retelling of Scheherazade’s odyssey–but on wheels and with sabor mexicano.”
Ilan Stavans, author of “Spanglish, The Making of a New American Language”