Rain of Gold

Rain of Gold is Victor Villaseñor's 1991 book, a national bestseller,[1] which tells the story of his own parents who were undocumented immigrants from Mexico.

Two families escaping from the Mexican Revolution to the relative safety of the United States have parallel experiences centered on their mothers' strength.

[3] Don Carlos does a double take and notices that those "little stones" are in fact gold nuggets, he then desperately chases down Espirito who was already headed out the door.

The village suffers repeated raids by various factions of the Mexican Revolution and ultimately the brazen Doña Guadalupe manages to protect her daughters and son.

For much of the beginning of the first chapter of the story she compares the things she enjoys in life to the Colonel, despite the fact that he is married to another woman and is nearly two decades older than she is.

Villaseñor took twelve years to research the material for the book, but when the original publisher asked him to shorten it, change the title, and market it as fiction, he bought back the rights, using his mother's life savings and a new mortgage to do so.