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Their Dogs Came with Them

Their Dogs Came with Them

Viramontes, Helena Maria

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Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1416588345
ISBN13: 9781416588344
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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.

Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel.

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. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes one of the important multicultural voices of American literature. Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.

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