KILHAVEN FARMS
A STORY OF LOVE AND PREJUDICE
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As she got closer to her old hometown her heart began to race uncontrollably and her palms started perspiring profusely. She remembered the last words that her father had spoken in anger to her. It was the last time she had seen him in ten years but those hurtful words which pronounced her death still resonated clearly in her mind as that day in which she left Kilhaven Farms. “You’re dead to me, you hear? My daughter is dead!” Manson Kilhaven had shouted to her.
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In 1960, a time in America when it was illegal for whites to marry nonwhites, Gloria Kilhaven, the 20 year daughter of a white farmer in Texas, and Nico Modesto, the 20 year old son of a Mexican American migrant farm worker family, fell in love only to incur the wrath of a racist world bent on preventing them from realizing their love. When Gloria witnesses a brazen act of discrimination committed against Nico’s little sister, she tries to correct it but in her effort to confront the perpetrator, she causes Nico to be charged with attempted murder. Now she must fight her racist father and an unsympathetic justice system to liberate her soulmate.
About the Author
Humberto G. Garcia is the author of MUSTANG MIRACLE, published in 2010.Before becoming an attorney and author, He spent twelve summers as a field hand toiling in the potato and onion fields in and around Hereford, Texas with his migrant farm worker family. He personally experienced the life of a potato picker in Hereford, Texas in the 1960's.