Their dogs came with them
Subtitle: a novel
By: Helena María Viramontes.
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780743287661
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Fiction; Mexican American neighborhoods -- Fiction; Express highways -- Design and construction -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: From the Publisher: Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes "one of the important multicultural voices of American literature." Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.