Bodega dreams
By: Ernesto Quiñonez.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty--and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Bodega turns to Chino, a smart, promising young man, for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder.--From publisher description.