It was never To o\'s plan to leave El Salvador behind.
What happens when a dream disappears? In uncertain circumstances in an unfamiliar country, can you find another life to fight for? Marcos Antonio Hernandez\'s The Education of a Wetback is a moving story of the haphazard, unexpected search for the American dream..
He\'s searching for a woman who might help him start his own family in El Salvador, and abandoning those who won\'t sacrifice their dreams for his-all the while ignoring his father\'s warnings of the chaos back home.
Now To o is working under the table for jewelers and roofers and cohabitating with his fellow immigrants, working every moment he can to secure his plans.
And the Salvadoran Civil War is about to begin.
But the year is 1979.
It\'s like Jose Angel says the day To o leaves: You always have a home to come back to.
And he knows exactly how to get it: make his way across the Mexican border to the United States of America, where he\'ll earn enough money to help his family and himself.
He wants nothing more than a plot of land and a farm of his own.
To o has spent his entire life rising hours before dawn to feed the animals and mind the farm of his father Jose Angel.
It was never To o\'s plan to leave El Salvador behind
