Amnesia in a Republican county
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Gary Soto.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Mexican American poets -- Fiction; College teachers -- Fiction; Amnesia -- Fiction; California -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Silver Mendez, veteran Chicano poet, is always looking for a way to guarantee himself three square meals a day and a roof over his head. As this latest account of Silver's misadventures begins, our hero reaches for a typewriter on a high shelf. When it comes crashing down on his head he is knocked unconscious. He awakes with no idea where he is or why.

Soon he discovers that he is in his office at a Baptist college in the Simi Valley of Southern California, a place that is familiar to many Americans as the home of many of the jurors who tried and convicted Rodney King in the 1990s. Silver has become a professor of English! Moreover, as he soon discovers to his horror, he is having an affair with the wife of the college president. And someone seems to be selling drugs on campus and Silver seems to be involved though he doesn't know how."--BOOK JACKET.