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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Madonnas of Echo Park

The Madonnas of Echo Park

Skyhorse, Brando

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Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1439170843
ISBN13: 9781439170847
Publisher: Free Press
Published: Feb 8 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
Reminiscent of Sherman Alexie and Sandra Cisneros, acclaimed author Brando Skyhorse's engaging storytelling (Vanity Fair) brings the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles to life in this poignant and propulsive novel following several generations of Mexican immigrants through their shifting cultural and physical landscapes.The Madonnas of Echo Park is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voice--poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife Felicia, who narrowly survives a shooting and lands a cleaning job in a Hollywood Hills house as desolate as its owner; and young Aurora, who journeys through her now gentrified childhood neighborhood to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican-Americans dream of, the land that belongs to us again. Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.

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