Amazon.com description: Product Description: Set amidst the Salvadoran civil war and the turmoil of Reagan's America in the early 1980's, Blended Borders is an epic novel spanning three lives, two continents, and four decades. Juanita Velasquez, a 19-year-old refugee, escapes from El Salvador only to lose her son in America. Computer whiz Cody Barton drops out of the University of Texas to pursue the video game design frontier even if it means abandonment by his tycoon father and a guaranteed shot in the American Dream. Ralph White, age 30, African-American, and laid-off auto worker, migrates to Texas to do whatever it takes to support his family.