The Flowers
By: Dagoberto Gilb
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780802118592; 9780802144027
Subjects: Apartment houses; Working poor; Hispanic American teenage boys; Mexican Americans; Fiction
Description: Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When his mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbors and becomes ensnared in their lives.