Autobiography of Cotton Format:Paperback First published to great acclaim

First published to great acclaim in 1987

and there are several ‘found’ poems as in the witty ‘The Complete Index of Welsh Emotions’

the collection explores their bond as they navigate a world beset by pandemics

especially the Black Mountains near the author’s home

Autobiography of Cotton Format:Paperback First published to great acclaimDeeply personal and politically acute, in Autobiography of Cotton, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents lives and the territories they helped develop. In this intimate fictionalisation, Rivera Garza reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonisation, labour activism, environmental degradation and cross border migration.