2020 Indie Book Award Winner
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is a literary awards program that recognizes and honors authors and publishers of exceptional independently published books in 70 different categories. “Indies” include small presses, larger independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors. It has been referred to as the Sundance of independent book publishing.
Here is the judge’s review:
MULTICULTURAL (Fiction)
WINNER
Luz, by Debra Thomas (She Writes Press)
The popular assumption behind immigration to the United States is that everyone is looking for a better life. While it’s important to understand that and to know that most, if not all, of our own ancestors came here for that reason, we need to understand that many from south of our border come to work and earn money to take back to their impoverished families. So, what happens when that relative, particularly a parent, doesn’t return? What happens to the family left behind? Here’s an amazingly sensitive story of a daughter who goes north to find her missing father. Alma Cruz tells us the story she cannot tell her daughter, the story of a dearly loved father missing for two years. This reader was mesmerized by the depth of pain and love that guides this story along the trail of Alma’s fearful journey to her hopes for her daughter.
Charlotte Robin Cook, Next Generation Indie Book Awards Judge
