Author Rudy Reyes’s New Book The Tamale Letter
3 min readKaty, TX, December 20, 2023 — Rudy Reyes, a prolific creator and the oldest of 4 kids, has accomplished his new ebook, “The Tamale Letter”: a gripping story that paperwork the true story of the creator’s household, spanning three generations of the Reyes household as they banned collectively to be able to construct a loving dwelling and survive the struggles of early 1900s America.
“My ebook, ‘The Tamale Letter,’ is predicated on a real historical past of my household over three generations,” writes Reyes. “My grandfather, Anastacio Reyes, was an orphan on the age of 10 in Mexico. He drifted from different members of the family who didn’t have the monetary means nor room to lift one other youngster. He by no means obtained an training and will barely learn or write.
“At the age of twelve years outdated, he labored as a storekeeper’s assistant for 2 years. At the age of fourteen yr he migrated to the United States with a caravan of migrant employees. He labored odd jobs like making fireplace pits to cook dinner meals, working the fields and cleansing dishes. As he acquired older, he labored for Southern Pacific Railroad, laying down railroad tracks. At eighteen years outdated, he met my grandmother Maria Gabino. And after a brief courtship they married and raised 5 kids, one being my father, Rudy Reyes.
“The new Reyes household grew up in Houston in the course of the Great Depression Era and thru World War 2. Both our grandfather and grandmother have been a loving and Christian household who taught their 5 kids deal with one another and ultimately their households as they acquired married. The title of my ebook, ‘The Tamale Letter,’ got here from an precise letter our aunt Mary Allice, the youngest of the 5 kids wrote to her older brother, Jesse Reyes who was on the Battle of the Bulge.”
Published by Covenant Books of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Rudy Reyes’s new ebook is a robust story of 1 household’s resistance and willpower within the face of opposition and, and the way they managed to outlive by devastating monetary and geo-political world occasions. Thought-provoking and deeply private, Reyes shares his story to each honor his household and go away behind an enduring legacy and reveal that with God and household by their facet, readers can climate something that life throws their means.
Readers can buy “The Tamale Letter” at bookstores in every single place, or on-line on the Apple iTunes retailer, Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Covenant Books is a world Christian owned and operated publishing home primarily based in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Covenant Books makes a speciality of all genres of labor which attraction to the Christian market. For extra info or media inquiries, contact Covenant Books at 843-507-8373.