Breathing, in dust
By: Tim Z. Hernandez.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lubbock, TX
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780896726727
Subjects: Agriculture -- Social aspects -- California -- Fiction; Immigrants -- California -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Stories of the drug abuse, poverty, and desperation of a farming community located in California's agriculturally wealthy heartland, home to a large immigrant population and a high rate of violent crime. Chronicling one young boy's coming-of-age, the stories reveal a deeper layer of sediment in a fertile American landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: What it means to say Catela; title: Animal; title: Ashes; title: Powell, Wyoming; title: Bread; title: Hunting; title: Legend of Adrastos; title: Ghosts of Tiburcio Vasquez; title: Rains have come and Cesar Chavez is dead; title: How to catch a train; title: Norma's lines; title: Pallbearer; title: Antifaz; title: Windfallen; title: Talina; title: Alejandro's Akashic; title: Killer; title: Querida Catela; title: Days of fertility; title: Eleventh step; title: Bachelor party; title: Epilogue.