description: Book I of The Rag Doll Plagues takes us to the squalid, plague-infested New World capital a few score years after European technological superiority has succeeded in devastating Aztec civilization. Now, the Spanish court sends a modern scientist on a mission of mercy to rescue the mixed-race populations that have developed out of the earlier violent encounter.In Book II, a young Chicano doctor in today’s southern California struggles to save his beloved from the grips of a newly identified and as yet incurable disease: AIDS. And he, too, prefigures the struggle of his successor, who in Book III is the creator of a surprisingly ironic cure to a virulent plague that is attacking all levels of a rigidly stratified and technocratic society of the future known as Lamex, a new confederation of what was California and Mexico in the twentieth century.Love offers the only real meaning to life, but it is quite often the first victim of the plague, the first to be sacrificed to uncaring gods, be they natural forces or man-made.
language: English
title: The Rag Doll Plagues
titlecomplete: The Rag Doll Plagues
genres: Fantasy, American, Magical Realism, School, Grad School, Disability Studies, Read For School, Fiction, Science Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 253
publisher: Arte Publico Pr