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by Helena Maria Viramontes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Helena Maria ViramontesPublish date:2008-10-01Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington Square PressISBN-13:9781416588344ISBN-10:1416588345UPC:9781416588344Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Hispanic & Latino, WomenSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC2JWQMGCR
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington Square PressISBN-13:9781416588344ISBN-10:1416588345UPC:9781416588344Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Hispanic & Latino, WomenSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC2JWQMGCR
Helena María Viramontes is the acclaimed author of The Moths and Other Stories and Under the Feet of Jesus; and the coeditor of two collections: Chicana (W)Rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism. She is the recipient of the 2006 Luis Leal Award and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, and her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and adopted for classroom use and university study. Viramontes lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a professor in the Department of English at Cornell University.
Publisher: Washington Square Press

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