From Beneath the Volcano

In this collection of fascinating and revealing oral histories, Gorkin and Pineda portray the personal and social lives of Luis and his family, who for the past eighteen years have been working to rebuild their lives in their new community beneath the Guazapa volcano.

Michael Gorkin, PhD, is a psychologist and was twice a Fulbright scholar in El Salvador. He is the author of Days of Honey, Days of Onion: The Story of a Palestinian Family in Israel, and Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories. Marta Evelyn Pineda is a Salvadoran-trained psychologist and co-author (with Michael Gorkin) of From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women's Stories. They are married and live in Florida.