Alma García

"This multiple viewpoint novel, set in El Paso, Texas, is a story of two families-one Mexican-American, one Anglo-who find themselves unexpectedly entangled with one another when each of their households separately implode. When the Mexican maid working in both houses begins to suspect that all is not what it seems, she is implicated in the unfolding of a web of mysteries, history, and border politics that forces all concerned to question their own...

"Roland Dahwen's debut feature tells the story of an immigrant family in Oregon whose life is disrupted when it's revealed that the father has a second family. Reeling from this news, his wife Leonora must choose to either leave her husband, her dying mother, and her son, who has a mysterious illness--or to move on, and let her husband take responsibility for the family he's destroyed. Haunted by memories, Leonora now struggles between her desires...