Paperback
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Oct. 1, 1991)
His father's loyalty to the Mexican president deposed by Porfirio Diaz in 1876 forces a boy known as El Güero and his family into exile to the dangerous Baja California territory.
Hardcover
(Harcourt Brace & Company, Aug. 16, 1993)
The son of a respected judge, El Guero--"The Blond One"--never suspects that his comfortable life will change when the president is deposed by General Diaz in 1876. But his father's loyalty to the old government sends the family into exile almost overnight. El Guero and his family set off first to Acapulco and then by sea to the wild, bandit-infested territory of Baja, California.
A story of survival, set in the late 1800s in Mexico and Baja California, based on the boyhood adventures of the author's father-in-law, the real El Guero.