num_pages: 360
description: In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and sent to serve five to ten years in a maximum-security penitentiary. (Biography)
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: EN SUELO FIRME
titlecomplete: EN SUELO FIRME (Spanish Edition)
genres: Biography, Poetry, Social Justice, Memoir, Nonfiction, School, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Sociology, Race
ratings_count: 2255
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
publisher: ALFAGUARA