Mary Ann Hutchison’s first novel, MOOCHI’S MARIACHI’S, was seven years in the writing. Forged by their love of music and their dream, their teen friendship is tight. If they work hard and save money, Moochi, Chico, Ladybug and Turo will be able to leave their small Arizona town and take part in the International Mariachi Conference in Tucson. No worries, until the strength of their friendship is teasted and then shaken by unforeseen problems that shatter their security and trust, forcing them to deal with an intolerance they’ve never felt before. The answers they need may lie in the dsert that surrounds their world and has always offered them peace as well as danger.
Look for both of them at the Festival of Books in March, as well as the other places that books and their writers hang around in.
Taken from The Write Word, the newsletter of The Society of Southwestern Authors Vol. 39, No. 1 Feb-Mar. 2010
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