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HURDLES IN THE DARK - MY STORY OF SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE, AND TRIUMPH

Hurdles in the Dark - My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph
Elvira K. Gonzalez
Roaring Brook Press (2024)
Kovakantinen kirja
19,40
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Hurdles in the Dark - My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph
19,40 €
Roaring Brook Press
Sivumäärä: 320 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024, 15.07.2024 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Twenty-four hours: that's how long fourteen-year-old Elvira Gonzalez is given to come up with the 40,000 dollars she needs to save her kidnapped mother from a drug cartel. It's 2006 and Elvira's hometown of Laredo, Texas, has become engulfed by the Mexican Drug War. Elvira's life is unraveling around her - setting her on a harrowing path that leads her to being locked up in one of South Texas's worst juvenile detention centres.

After Elvira's released from juvie, she's resolved to never go back. That's when her unexpected salvation arrives in the form of 33-inch-high plastic hurdles. Determined to win a track scholarship out of Laredo, Elvira begins breaking into the school, alone, at 5:30 in the morning to practice hurdling. Soon, she catches the attention of a renowned high school coach, an adult man in his 30s. As they train, their coach-student relationship begins to change, becoming sexual. At just seventeen years old, Elvira experiences the dangers many young athletes face, especially those who are marginalised. In spite of these towering obstacles, Elvira eventually propels herself to become one of the top ranked hurdlers in the USA and the first in her family to go to college.

This inspiring true story of grit, tenacity, and hope traces Elvira's path as she overcomes impossible hurdles in her race to freedom.

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