Ocotillo dreams is an evocative and powerful statement about human life and the conditions of immigrants in the united states denise chavez novelist and director of the border book festival melinda palacio is a fresh voice in fiction. Ocotillo dreams does what many other fiction works do addresses a social injustice operation restoration is a police action orchestrated by ins now called ice the mayor of chandler and the chandler city police working in collaboration to round up mexicans mexicans who are us citizens mexicans who are documented and mexicans who were undocumented. Ocotillo dreams is a must read for anyone truly wishing to gain an inside perspective of immigration and what it means to those on both sides of the border here is a case where in fiction one finds truth. Get this from a library ocotillo dreams melinda palacio set in chandler arizona during the citys infamous 1997 migrant sweeps ocotillo dreams delivers a wallop that resonates in todays volatile immigration debate but this is no run of the mill . Melinda palacio blog pubs bio bird forgiveness ocotillo dreams events poetry chapbook how fire is a story waiting anthologies youtube more video