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Wido Press
IndieBound

I can send a signed copy to you or a loved one for $20! Email me with a name and address. You can pay via Venmo (Linda-Gonzalez-8) or Paypal. If you need another option, email me.

Now available read by the author: Audiobook

Peek into The Cost of our Lives

Performances/Storytelling

A 15-minute ‘outtake’ I performed that I edited out of the memoir: Follow the Schedule

An expanded story from the memoir:  Bringing Mamy Home

Live Interview

Modern Latina Book Club FB

Podcast

Pam Covarrubias and I talk memoir, body image, Serena Williams, and living bilingual, bicultural lives. Cafe con Pam is a podcast featuring fearless Latinx and People of Color that break barriers, change lives, and make the world a better place while living in the US. Click on icon to listen. ¡Que lo disfruten!

Reviews

A review and Q & A by Paula Farmer, Chair, Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittee, CALIBA (California Association of Independent Booksellers Association)

An in-depth, thoughtful review by Mariana Huerta of LatinasLeyendo. Her tagline is: Celebrating Literature for, by, and about Latinas

Read an interview by a wonderful writer and amigo Daniel Olivas about my memoir process.

Testimonials

The Cost of Our Lives is an immigrant daughter’s compassionate exploration of complicated inheritances. Using archival records and oral histories with her Colombian-Mexican family, Linda González untangles los engaños and the silences of her childhood to ultimately create a moving portrait of the complex family relations that shape a woman’s life.
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