Books with title THE LONELY GIRL AND THE CAT

The Lonely Girl is the biographical narrative of a young woman, raised in Mexico City, who flees to the United States with her family at the age of thirteen. Like many children in Mexico, she experienced traumatic events that caused her to question the purpose of her life and why bad things can happen to good people. But something inside of her never let her give in to the idea that she would have to let her past dictate and control her future. Through a series of letters, the Lonely Girl reveals who she is and who she wants to be as she battles to move forward in a world so divided and seemingly against her. The product of loving parents who only sought the best for their children, a struggle began in the lives of this girl and two of her siblings the moment they crossed the United States border illegally. Here, in the “Land of Opportunity,” she faced difficulty not only in adjusting to the culture and language, but also to an entirely new concept of prejudice, ignorance, and an indistinct depiction of what it means to be free. As she crossed the border into the United States, carrying with her a backpack with only two changes of clothes, the Lonely Girl left behind all of the things from her past which caused her pain and loneliness, but also her one true friend, Penelope – the friend who was more like a sister. She tells, as she remembers, what Penelope meant to her as a young girl and what she hopes her friend will learn from her experience in America. Penelope, the faithful wife of mythological Odysseus, was left behind in the Greek story, just as she is in The Lonely Girl. But neither ever gave up hope that they would see their loved ones again.The Lonely Girl is a story of struggle and survival, hope and redemption, love and undying commitment to chasing after dreams. It is the story of a girl who sees the world differently, through eyes of love, and desires for people to love each other as she loves them. Through the course of telling her story, the Lonely Girl comes to symbolize that which we all once had and to some degree still struggle to cling to: a hope that this world can be a better place, if only we would begin to become this change in ourselves.