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Juni Fisher is a multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer. She’s the Western Music Association’s (WMA) Entertainer of the Year, four times Female Performer of the Year, (WMA and AWA), three-time Song of the Year winner, and is a two-time True West Magazine Best Solo Musician. Juni was the first woman to win the National Cowboy Museum’s Wrangler Award in 2009 for her landmark CD, Gone for Colorado, which was also the 2009 WMA Album of the year. Her songs have appeared in feature film and documentary sound tracks and have been recorded by artists in folk and western music circles. Before writing her first full length novel, she had articles published in Equus Magazine, The Trout Unlimited Newsreel, The Western Way, and True West Magazine. Fisher splits her time between the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, and her hometown in Tulare County, in central California. When she’s on the west coast between concert tours, she rides and shows her cow horse, nick-named Dee Jay, who sports Juni’s 2NZ (it reads ‘tunes’) brand on her hip. And when she takes an incognito break from the road with husband Rusty, they head for places where waters run clear and cold, and trout rise to well tied flies. She has a wicked double haul cast and has been known to have to be coaxed and bribed out of the water at the end of the day. She is, after all, a Fisher.

North of the Mexican border, survival has a price. Teresa sells souvenirs to tourists in the marketplace in Centro, the heart of Nogales, and feeds her father's fighting roosters. It's all she's ever known. When a letter promises a better life in the United States for Teresa, her mother, and her sisters, they leave home under cover of darkness, like so many before them. Ana, a young, single mother, cooks at a convent and orphanage until she receives an offer she can't refuse from a wealthy employer in Arizona. She walks away from the convent, her religion, and Centro, swearing never to return. For two women, a generation apart, a border fence and bone-littered desert are the least of what separates subsisting in Sonora from surviving in Arizona. In her debut novel, Fisher crafts a richly textured, multi-layered story of depravity, family bonds, and sacrifice for women who dare to dream of life beyond borders. Praise for Girls from CentroAuthor JA Fisher delivers in this, her debut novel. A well crafted story of generations of women struggling to survive the seedy world of human trafficking and cult religion. Each character introduction is woven in a way that leaves the reader hungry to see where the character fits as the pattern of the story reveals itself. This book is a page-turner that I recommend to anyone who likes a well executed read. ~ Mary Matli, winner of The Georgie Sicking Poetry Award

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