Title: America libre
First published: 2009
Description: After years of anti-immigrant backlash, anger seethes in the nation's Latino communities. The crowded streets bristle with restless youth, idled by a deep recession. When undercover detectives in San Antonio accidentally kill a young Latina bystander during a botched drug bust, riots erupt across the Southwest. As the inner-city violence escalates, Anglo vigilantes strike back with shooting rampages. Exploiting the turmoil, a congressional demagogue succeeds in passing legislation that transforms the nation's Hispanic enclaves into walled-off Quarantine Zones. Citizens tagged Class H-those who are Hispanic, are married to a Hispanic, or have at least one grandparent of Hispanic origin-are forced into detention centers. Amid the chaos in his L.A. barrio, Manolo Suarez is out of work and struggling to support his growing family. But under the spell of a beautiful Latina radical, the former U.S. Army Ranger and decorated war veteran now finds himself questioning his loyalty to his wife-and to his country.
Subjects: Fiction, Crimes against, Insurgency, Social change, Illegal aliens, Emigration and immigration, Hispanic Americans, Ethnic relations, Social conditions, Political violence, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Hispanic americans, fiction, United states, fiction, Noncitizens, Illegal immigration
Places: United States, Mexican-American Border Region
LC classification: PS3618.A4765 A44 2009