Cecilia's Year

Susan and Denise Gonzales Abraham are daughters of Cecilia Gonzales Abraham, the title character of Cecilia’s Year. The sisters were born and raised in El Paso, Texas, but spent holidays and every summer on their grandparent’s farm in Derry, New Mexico. They both graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a B.S. in Education. This, their first novel, is a tribute to their mother and to the deep roots of their family in rural New Mexico. They have written a sequel to Cecilia’s Year, which is titled Surprising Cecilia. Susan taught in the El Paso Independent School District for twenty-nine years as a high school English and business education teacher before retiring in 2002. Denise received a master’s degree in reading education from Arizona State University. She has taught Spanish, English, reading skills, and English as a Second Language in Phoenix, Arizona and El Paso. She is an elementary school librarian with the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso.

Susan and Denise Gonzales Abraham are daughters of Cecilia Gonzales Abraham, the title character of Cecilia’s Year. The sisters were born and raised in El Paso, Texas, but spent holidays and every summer on their grandparent’s farm in Derry, New Mexico. They both graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a B.S. in Education. This, their first novel, is a tribute to their mother and to the deep roots of their family in rural New Mexico. They have written a sequel to Cecilia’s Year, which is titled Surprising Cecilia. Susan taught in the El Paso Independent School District for twenty-nine years as a high school English and business education teacher before retiring in 2002. Denise received a master’s degree in reading education from Arizona State University. She has taught Spanish, English, reading skills, and English as a Second Language in Phoenix, Arizona and El Paso. She is an elementary school librarian with the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso.