From Cuenca to Queens

From the most ancient of times, human beings in all their forms have migrated in order to seek a better life. From our ancestors traversing continents in search of a better hunt to modern man's movements through our ever-shrinking world in search of work, the migration of people across the world is nothing new. But in so doing, the people involved in these movements risk the possibility of giving up on or losing other aspects of their lifestyle or culture that were not intended to be lost. The Quitasaca family in which the book From Cuenca to Queens is written around, experiences this paradox of migrating in search of a better life, but at what cost? Many families in Cuenca, the city in which the Quitasacas reside in during the course of this book, are weighing out the costs and the benefits of migrating, both in regards to rural to urban and transnational. Within the Quitasaca family, there lie many contradictions and differences of opinion on the......

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Title: From Cuenca To Queens
Approximate Word Count: 2392
Approximate Pages: 10 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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