Best Amigas
Juana Méndez and Diane Conrad are going to save each other’s lives. Not with super heroics, but with a friendship that gets them through everything. And those girls are always up to something--eating goat burritos on July 4th, sneaking up on a garage roof to watch a couple kiss and wonder about romance, and surviving the meanest kid in school. Then another summer arrives, and ends in heartbreak and hope for the best amigas.
The granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, Patricia Marcantonio is the author of the Felicity Carrol mystery series; Verdict in the Desert, published by Arte Público Press, the largest US publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Hispanic authors; and Red Ridin’ in the Hood and Other Cuentos, an Anne Izard Storyteller’s Choice Award winner. She received an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant to produce her play, Tears for Llorona. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and has won awards for her screenplays and journalism.