Bound for the Promised Land

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The Sentiments of A Woman,is a story of the American Dream, which recounts the struggle and final triumphof Isabel Rivera, the subject of this intimate novel.¿ Chapter by chapter we travel through herlife, from trauma to triumph, as she recounts the extraordinary adventures,famous personalities met along the way, sacrifices endured, and the anecdotesof economic depression, World War II, and obstacles overcome, from childhood tomaturity, to reach her America.¿Changing times and fortunes forced her to move, and she wandered, FromMexico to California before settling down in this land of 'goldendreams.'A true story based on private memoirs and personal recollections.ADVANCEd4Thesentiments of a Woman, Part II of BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND, willchronicle the personal feelings and experiences of my mother---representing theother side of the story, which began with Trialsof Manhood.Both novels begin with their parents and how they met, before 1920 inboth cases, and continue and conclude with all that they lived and experienced,through revolutions, economic depressions, World War, Modernity and passingfashions, social changes, immigration, struggle, and achieving their Americandream by 1960. The books conclude with an epilogue of what life has taughtthem, and how they see the world as senior citizens, compared to theconvictions they clung to as youths.