Cotton Strike Novel Highlights Border Labor History
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garzas new novel, Autobiography of Cotton, delves into a forgotten labor strike from 1934 on the U.S.-Mexico border, involving her own grandparents. The book, blending history and personal story, highlights overlooked workers who built the border region. Garza argues borders feel artificial when people move for better lives, linking labor to ideas of home and belonging in American history. She connects the old cotton era to todays issues like fracking and the war on drugs. Garza spent five years writing it, juggling teaching and other projects, writing mornings in silence with green tea.
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