Lunar Braceros

Lunar Braceros

This book is published by Floricanto Press. www.floricantopress.comwww.LatinoBooks.netTwenty-second century Cholos living on Cali-Texas Reservations have few options. One of them is signing up as Moon Tecos, technicians disposing of Earth’s waste on Lunar sites. After discovering that their Teco contracts are one-way tickets, the Lunar Braceros are forced to take matters into their own hands.<br /> <br />“It’s like nothing I’ve ever read. Lunar Braceros delivers. It’s a powerful social narrative that creates an alternative imaginative reality and explores the dynamics of space travel in relation to the Américas.” Angie Chabram, UC Davis<br /> <br />I’ve been waiting for this kind of novel for most of my life, a work of science fiction from below, focused on people of color, that takes on big ideas about history, politics, capitalism, philosophy, and science.” Curtis Márez, UC San Diego<br /> <br />Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita teach in the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego.