El Libro en Blanco recommended: "Inside the wind. An Unexpected Journey".

Our recommendation this week for the English readers is: "Inside the wind. An Unexpected Journey", by Cristi Cruz Reyes.

"Inside the wind", "En el centro del viento" and "El dueño del barranco", by Cristi Cruz Reyes.

Elisa Lugo´s teaching assignment in the United States is about to end and she is getting ready to return to Spain, but before leaving the country, she wants to fulfill her dream of visiting New Orleans. It will be an intense trip full of emotions and experiences that will make "her blood boil". On her last day in Louisiana, an unexpected discovery will became an obsession once she is back in Tenerife. Coincidences, documents, anecdotes read and heard from different family members, and her determination to piece together a story, take us on a journey throught different periods of the history of the Canary Islands: slavery, the Spanish Inquisition, the turn of the 20th century or the wounds of the Spanish Civil War. Interwoven with these are tales of Louisiana, such as salvery on the sugar cane plantations or the role of the isleños in the US South.

Cristi Cruz Reyes, the author of "Inside the Wind". 

Elisa is looking for a plausible explanation for her startling discovery in New Orleans. About to give up, a last clue will take her again to a place "inside the wind".

Cristi Cruz Reyes was born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. She has a BA in English Studies (University of La Laguna), a MA in Audiovisual Translation (University of Cádiz), and a MA in Innovative Technologies in Translation (Menéndez Pelayo International University). She has taught English as a Foreing Language in Secondary Sochool in Houston, Texas.
For a period of four academic years she stopped teaching to work as a teacher trainer and advisor in the fields of Literacy,  Reading and School Libraries.
"Inside the wind: An Unexpected Journey" was originally published in Spanish in 2015 (En el centro del viento). It is her first novel. Her second novel, "El dueño del barranco", was published  in 2018. 

The book:

Tittle: Inside the wind. An Unexpected Journey.

Author: Cristi Cruz Reyes.

Publishing: Algani Editorial.

Date and place: Tenerife, 2018.

Literary genre: Novel.

Pages: 208

ISBN: 978-84-947618-3-6

PVP: 12€