Into The Beautiful North

I had to put down Beautiful Creatures for now because I want to read the last book club book for the summer, Into The Beautiful North. This will be my 2nd Summer Reading book and Summer Reading hasn't even started yet.

Into The Beautiful North (and mind you I haven't finished it yet) is about a small Mexican village/town. For some reason all the men in the town have left to do other things and have left the woman and children behind. One of the teenage girls realizes this can't be good. When was the last time anyone was pregnant? No men, no babies, no boyfriends and her dad was one of the men who left. He was a cop and needs to come back. Bandidos (bandits) have come to town! Now its up to her and her three friends to make a journey north to find the men, cops and soldiers, and bring them back to the town, her father included. So the three girls and their gay friend set out an adventure. Crossing the border into Northern Mexico is just the start of their troubles when a couple gets takin' off the bus they are traveling on at gun point. And things just get worse from their as they try to make their way to America.

I'm not sure how this is going to end but its a good read and I can't put it down. It reminds me of my journey from GA to AZ riding on the ole Grey Hound bus, once with my husband and once alone. And I remember when I was alone on the 2nd trip getting stopped at the border and the guards tacking us all off the bus and lining us up outside in the cold. (it was December) I was scared but after a quick search of the bus they let us all back on and let us pass. I'd never been through anything like that before. And once they did take a guy off the bus for having drugs, right then and their. He was takin' into the guard post at the border and we just left him. Needless to say I don't want to take that trip again anytime soon even though I miss my family in GA.  

And the book has some Spanish in it so I'm sure I'll be searching the net for translations soon. Though sometimes they explain what some of the words mean in the sentence. So its not like its a hard read for those of us (like me) that never took Spanish in school to understand.