immigrants — Read Short Excerpts from the Texas Panhandle — Once Upon A Time in the Texas Panhandle

This series is appropriate for both young adults (ages 18+) and older readers alike. The history of the Panhandle serves as the backdrop of each book and is weaved into the character development and the story itself, so you are learning pieces of Texas Panhandle history while reading a fun and engaging book.

These books are family sagas and multigenerational – each story spanning across several generations from grandparents to parents to children and grandchildren. They tackle tough subjects like class differences, interracial relationships, PTSD, alcoholism, and family loss. Even with these tough topics, each book is still rich with humor, love, and personal growth. And one thing is known from the beginning – these stories all have a happy ending.

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Jul 23 Back to What? (If you want to send somebody “back,” you need to ask, “Back to what?”)

Sara Stratton

being an author

If you want to send somebody “back,” you need to ask, “Back to what?” The next volume of my series, Once Upon a Time in the Texas Panhandle, is entitled, Colleen and the Statue. In the first chapter, teenaged Colleen is about to leave Ireland. In the second chapter, she is in Mackenzie, Texas—my invented town. It’s the 1950s, and she’s a young and single Irish Catholic—a religious and ethnic minority. She often hears Protestant “Anglos” whispering, “Why doesn’t she go back? We should send her back. We don’t need her kind here.”

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Jul 23 Jul 23 Back to What? (If you want to send somebody “back,” you need to ask, “Back to what?”)

Jul 23
Jul 23 Back to What? (If you want to send somebody “back,” you need to ask, “Back to what?”)