Luis Torres: With Through Fences you recreate sorrowful splinters of the lives of your young protagonists, peeling back for readers the complex experiences and perspectives of what it means to be Latinx living in the US-Mexico borderlands.
Frederick Luis Aldama: With this first foray into young lives lived in the borderlands, it was important for me to create this kaleidoscopic view. I wanted to capture a wide spectrum of unique experiences. While the borderlands shape each protagonist differently, their individual stories thread together to form a greater tapestry that shows the everyday struggles of Latinx youth.
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