PINNICK KINNICK HILL: AN AMERICAN STORY

A hundred years ago, dozens of families journeyed from Spain to the United States, to search for a better life in the growing zinc industry towns in central West Virginia. As they created a new culture and a new home in this land, they added another thread to the rich fabric of our nation. Writing from his perspective as a first-generation son of this immigrant community, Gonzalez recounts his memories in a book that is partly a memoir, partly a history, and partly a novel, all combined in a sometimes heartwarming and sometimes bittersweet celebration of how one small Spanish community survived and then prospered in the ethnic caldron that was America. Available now in paperback, this bilingual edition of Pinnick Kinnick Hill, with the same side-by-side Spanish-English facing papes as the hardbound copy, is an important addition to first-person narratives that explore the American immigrant experience.