We Gambled Our Future: Historia de dos Caminantes - Paperback

by María Cristina López Gandarillas-Page (Author), Julie Kanta (Editor), Maxwell E. Mandell (Illustrator)

What happens when two people from opposite ends of the world bet everything on each other - and win?

We Gambled Our Future is the memoir of María Cristina López Gandarillas-Page: two lives, two cultures, and forty years of a love that deepened every year.

She grew up in Cochabamba, Bolivia, shaped by revolution and early independence, and became the city's first woman architect before emigrating to California with $300 and a willingness to risk everything. He left the seminary after twelve years, arrived in Los Angeles with $500 in his pocket, and set out to discover who he was outside of institutional life. They met unexpectedly, agreed on the terms before they began, and built something neither of them could have planned.

Spanning continents and generations, the memoir weaves together family genealogies, personal letters, childhood memories, and the voices of the daughters, nieces, and nephews who knew Bill and María Cristina as fixtures of warmth and humor in their lives. It is history made intimate, and a legacy offered freely to those still to come.

For anyone who has ever loved someone from a different world, built a family across cultures, or wondered what story they will leave behind.