Title: The Flowers
First published: January 21, 2008
Description: Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When his mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbors and becomes ensnared in their lives.
Subjects: Hispanic American teenage boys, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Working poor, Apartment houses, Fiction, coming of age, Hispanic americans, fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Poor relation hotel (london, england : imaginary place), fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Blacks, fiction
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)