Maracaibo Oil Brat: Book One

When Susan McClurg’s parents accept a job transfer in 1957, Susan is plucked out of her familiar and routine existence in Orange, Texas and plunked down in always-hot oil-rich Maracaibo, Venezuela. While too tall, preteen Susan struggles to make new friends at her American school, she comes to grips with life in a country peppered with revolutions, strikes and mandatory curfews. When Pat, Susan’s older sister, flies to Maracaibo for her summer break from college, the naïve McClurg family takes trips to Colombia and Caracas.