Title: The bolero of Andi Rowe : stories /
Authors: Plummer, Toni Margarita.
Publisher: Curbstone Books : Northwestern University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Immigrants United States Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction
Abstract: Drawn against a Los Angeles landscape and crossing generations and borders, this debut collection of interrelated stories delves into the world of Andi Rowe -- a young woman of Mexican and Irish heritage -- to give an intimate account of one family's passage from the immigrant story to the American story and the cycle of loss, adaptation, and rediscovery that is innate to that experience.
Contents: Yard work -- Olivia's roses -- The desert in green -- Forces -- The bolero of Andi Rowe -- All the sex is west -- Happy hour -- The body -- To visit the cemetery -- What would Mary do: a Christmas story.