![]() ![]() With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. Joaquin and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everythingadventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories of the girl's motheruntil one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his lifethat is until Joaquin Gonzalez unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co. ![]() ![]() She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad Gonzalez finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison's meager supply. ![]()
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