A hundred years ago, dozens of families journeyed from Spain to the United States, to search for a better life in the growing zinc industry towns in central West Virginia. As they created a new culture and a new home in this land, they added another thread to the rich fabric of our nation.
Writing from his perspective as a first-generation son of this immigrant community, Gonzalez recounts his memories in a book that is partly a memoir, partly a history, and partly a novel, all combined in a sometimes heartwarming and sometimes bittersweet celebration of how one small Spanish community survived and then prospered in the ethnic caldron that was America.
