Evangelina Takes Flight
Diana J. Noble

Evangelina lives a sheltered life with her family, including her precious abuelito, in the small town of Mariposa. Rumors spreading around are about how the Villistas are heading towards Norther Mexico, towards their beloved home, bringing with them chaos that will destroy homes and possible danger to the people and community she loves. 

It is 1911, the summer her sister Elsa is preparing for her quinceañera, and Evangelina's life is about to be filled with heartbreak. Circumstances lead her to leave her family's rancho and many people and things dear to her, taking flight to the U.S. in hopes of finding refuge across the border. What comes next is a new life filled with discrimination, puzzling encounters, acceptance of the changes she wasn't prepared for, and reimagining a future far from what she had always hoped.  
 
Evangelina Takes Flight by Diana J. Noble takes the reader on a journey across borders and into a time in history that displaced so many from their homes, bringing the Mexican Revolution and the hardships it brought to life, and giving a face to young immigrants of that era. Most interesting is how those experiences from over a hundred years ago remain relevant for so many living through today's transitioning borders. 

Diana J. Noble is a human resource specialist for the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington. Evangelina Takes Flight, her first published book, is based on the life of her paternal grandmother and stories of her own childhood. 

Evangelina Takes Flight is a publication by Piñata Books and can be purchase through Amazon. Click here to purchase. 

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Reviewed by
Priscilla C. Suarez
​12/16/2017

Priscilla Celina Suarez is the 2015-17 McAllen Poet Laureate and co-founder of the Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project. A co-author of the Texas State Library’s Bilingual Programs chapter, her work appears in such venues as ¡Juventud!: Growing up on the Border and Along the River III: Dark Voices from the Río Grande. 

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