The summer of El Pintor
By: Ofelia Dumas Lachtman.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houston, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Identity -- Fiction.; Moving, Household -- Fiction.; Single-parent families -- Fiction.; Mexican Americans -- Fiction.; Mystery and detective stories.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.