Shasta College Spanish instructor Ann Sittig gathered oral histories of Mayan women living in Nebraska and working in meatpacking plants. She published these stories in a book, The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains . In her book, The Distance Between Us , author Reyna Grande describes the effect on her as a child left behind in Mexico when her parents migrated to The United States. Chico author Nick Hanson tells a scary Halloween story in his novel, An Empty