The block captain's daughter
Subtitle: a novel
By: Demetria Martinez
Series: Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas -- v. 11
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780806142913
Description: Guadalupe Anaya is pregnant and as the newly elected block captain of Sunset Street she is in charge of raising awareness of safety in her Albuquerque neighborhood. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters to her unborn child, whom she names Destiny. It is Lupe's dream that her daughter will be a writer, pushing a pen instead of a broom.