Cara Lopez Lee
Cara Lopez Lee is the author of the historical novel, Candlelight Bridge, the memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands, and coauthor of the veteran-acclaimed, Unexpected Prisoner: Memoir of a Vietnam POW (with Robert Wideman). You’ll find more of her writing in such publications as Los Angeles Times, Slackjaw, and Manifest-Station.
In 1910, twelve-year-old Candelaria Rivera and her family fled across the Chihuahuan Desert to America to escape the rising storm of the Mexican Revolution. Meanwhile, twenty-year-old Yan Chi Wong flees the Chinese Revolution and a shattering loss, also bound for America, where he’s nicknamed Yankee. They meet in El Paso, Texas, where they struggle to make a home in a world that does not want them until a terrible desire threatens to destroy their lives. Candlelight Bridge is not a romance but a tale of grudging partners struggling to survive the American Dream.