Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mar a Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.
A.
In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find Their way through the turbulent urban. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel.
Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mar a Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.
A.
Helena Maria Viramontes brings 1960s Los Angeles to life with terse, energetic, and vivid (Publishers Weekly) prose in this story of a group of young Latinx women fighting to survive and thrive in a tumultuous world.
Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.
Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes one of the important multicultural voices of American literature.
In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth.
And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith.
Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness.
Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother.
Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member.
In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find Their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel.
Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mar a Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.
A.
Helena Maria Viramontes brings 1960s Los Angeles to life with terse, energetic, and vivid (Publishers Weekly) prose in this story of a group of young Latinx women fighting to survive and thrive in a tumultuous world.
Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.
Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes one of the important multicultural voices of American literature.
In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth.
And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith.
Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness.
Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother.
Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member.
In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find Their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel.
Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mar a Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.
A
