Mi Razon

About the Book

There are those after all, who can never realize their fondest dreams. In the absence of personal fulfillment the next best thing is to steer our children into a path that leads to the fulfillment of their own dreams. To many; that recourse is their only vindication. Mi Razon is a Testament of sorts to a man who overcame poverty, ignorance and severe personal misfortune; but was waylaid by vice, weakness, unfortunate decisions and severe misfortune. While telling the story of one man, it narrates the history of many men; spanning three generations to celebrate a culture who like their American counterparts also dream and hope and feel.

About the Author

Maria Victoria Murua is a wife, mother, grandmother, poet, writer, singer and musician. Of all her literary work, Maria is proudest of the many gospel songs she has authored for her Church choir, at the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Guadalupe, Arizona. “When I hear the people singing my songs of praise to God, my heart literally takes flies to Heaven,” she says. Maria has also spent the last 25 years as a Detention Officer for Maricopa County, in the State of Arizona. Most of those years she worked in the Adult Remand Juvenile Detention Unit. “Those years were very painful,” she admits. “As a mother and a grandmother, it breaks my heart to see all the young children, ‘Los Niños,’ that are facing bleak, uncertain futures of lengthy prison sentences and even life imprisonment. Childhood should never end like this, but for many children, it does.