The lamentable journey of Omaha Bigelow into the impenetrable loisaida jungle
By: Edgardo Vega Yunqué.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Young men -- Fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Puerto Rican women -- Fiction.; Magic -- Fiction.; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Just laid-off from Kinko's, dumped by his girlfriend, failed in all his career aspirations, and burdened with a particularly frustrating anatomical shortcoming, Omaha Bigelow finds salvation on the streets of New York's Lower East Side in the form of Maruquita Salsipuedes, a nubile young Nuyorican homegirl equipped with an array of magical powers to cure his problems. Their misbegotten romance transforms him from perpetual loser to overnight success, but magic may have a price; soon he must struggle to remain faithful, as he becomes ensnared in the world of an irresistible WASP law student and a sinister ex-CIA agent who just happens to be her father." "Vega Yunque challenges the received wisdom of contemporary life and the politics that underpin it - everything from preventive war to "compassionate conservatism" - in expressly salient parallel commentary that invites readers to engage with his unsparing assessment of how we've gotten ourselves so 'plexed up."--BOOK JACKET.