“Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.” Author to Read at Once Upon a Time

Once Upon A Time Bookstore in Montrose will host LA-based author Maria Amparo Escandon on Tuesday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. as she reads and signs from her latest best-selling novel, “Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Company.”

This highly original novel tells the tale of Libertad Gonzalez, who is serving a sentence in a Mexican prison, as she finds a clever way of passing the time by starting a book club for her fellow inmates and reading from whatever books she can find from the prison’s meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his life--that is until Joaquin Gonzalez unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co. is born. Joaquin and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everything until one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another.