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Join us in welcoming local author Patricia Alarcón Missler as she shares Border Town Chica! All readers will glean something from Missler's inspiring stories, and there's something for everyone to relate to.

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In Border Town Chica, A Memoir, Patricia Alarcón Missler paints colorful stories portraying a young girl growing up in a small south Texas border town. Readers see the author as a six-year-old picking out a special pastry, and as a young woman picking out a special boyfriend. A trip to the racetrack with Papi. Bandidos on the road. Two sisters on their own in Mexico City. Standing atop the Teotihuacán Pyramids. Fortunetellers in a cave bar, and more... Share the camaraderie and adventures of her familia and friends. Readers from diverse backgrounds will relate to these poignant stories, which transcend cultures. Inspiring, humorous, and insightful—at times intimately personal—Border Town Chica, A Memoir, breaks from the stereotype of the Mexican American experience.

 After almost four decades of calling the island of Hawaii home, Patricia Alarcón Missler, and her husband, moved to Bellingham, WA in 2021, where she continues to unfold her creative journey. As an artist, she is well-known for large abstracts and also vibrant and whimsical watercolor paintings with collectors all over the world. As a writer, she published her first book in 2014 and a decade later is publishing a revised edition of her book now titled, Border Town Chica, A Memoir.

Elaina Ellis (she/her) is publisher and cofounder at Generous Press. She owns and operates A Trusted Reader, providing literary book editing services for brilliant writers of all stripes. For ten years she worked at the Pulitzer Prize-winning publishing house Copper Canyon Press where she served as editor. She is the author of Write About an Empty Birdcage, and has received support from Artist Trust, Mineral School, Vermont Studio Center, Jack Straw, Tent, 4Culture, and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.