Tortuga
Subtitle: a novel
By: Rudolfo Anaya.
Edition: 25th anniversary ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Hospital patients -- Fiction; Accident victims -- Fiction; Diving accidents -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; New Mexico -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A sixteen-year-old boy, nicknamed after the mountain Tortuga because he is encased in a full-body cast, embarks on a journey of spiritual and physical recovery in a hospital for crippled children after being paralyzed in a swimming accident.