Title: The ordinary seaman
First published: 1997
Description: America seen through the eyes of the huddled masses. The hero is Estaban, one of a group of Central Americans brought to New York to crew a tramp ship, only to be abandoned by the ship's owners. When their food runs out Estaban, a former Nicaraguan guerrilla, goes ashore to steal for them. His forays lead him to a Latino neighborhood where he finds work and love. By the author of The Long Night of the White Chickens.
Subjects: Fiction, Sailors, Nicaraguans, Immigrants, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, general
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.)
LC classification: PS3557.O368 O73 1997