Pescadero

• AMONG THE BEST INDIE LITERARY FICTION OF THE YEAR-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
• FINALIST 2025-Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• "A powerful story of dislocation."- Publishers Weekly
• "A quietly moving novel ... raw and impactful." -The BookLife Prize
• "Impressively original, exceptionally compelling, thoroughly engaging..."- Midwest Book Review
• "Special moments of humanness that feel very tender ..." -Writer's Digest
• "Storytelling at its finest." -Independent Book Publishers Association, Awards Judge

What compels someone to attempt to cross a brutal and unforgiving desert in search of a better life?

In this deeply moving novel, a Midwest girl bears witness to-and then becomes entangled in-the struggles of two undocumented brothers caught on opposite sides of the US/Mexico border.

Fourteen-year-old Hilde, raised on a family farm in Wisconsin, is dragged to the northern California coastal town of Pescadero by a mother fleeing a bad marriage.

But Pescadero is worlds away from the conservative Midwest, and Hilde finds herself adrift in a community where all the attitudes she absorbed growing up seem oddly off-key.