Gringolandia
By: by Lyn Miller-Lachmann.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Willimantic, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781931896498
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Political activists -- Fiction; Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction; Journalists -- Fiction; Chilean Americans -- Fiction; People with disabilities -- Fiction; Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988 -- Fiction; Madison (Wis.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.