Cultural loses and identity are taken on in Linda Conzalez's memoir "The Cost of Our Lives"

Sixteen year-old Linda González is shocked when her father’s son appears at the front door of her Southern California home all the way from México. Neither she nor her siblings knew their father had another child. Linda’s family portrait slowly shatters over the next couple of years as she discovers her father had a wife and two daughters as well. Linda realizes her very existence is because her father abandoned his first family. As family secrets quickly unfold amid Linda’s attempts to silence the echoes of her cultural losses with political work and a lesbian identity. Relationships are forged and dissolved, often through painful and illuminating encounters with family on both sides of the Rio Grande.

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About the author

Linda González is a storyteller and has published several essays in literary journals and anthologies. She received her MFA at Goddard College. González has a thriving practice as a life coach, assisting writers and others committed to discovering and reaching their full-hearted goals. She was born in Los Angeles, the city where her parents—a Mexicano and a Colombiana— met in 1955. Since then she has made the San Francisco Bay Area her home for over 25 years. She is still raising and being raised by her beloved 22 year old twins Gina and Teotli. Please visit her online at www.lindagonzalez.net.