Title: Gringolandia
First published: 2009
Description: In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.
Subjects: Politics and government, Journalists, Chilean Americans, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Post-traumatic stress disorder, People with disabilities, Political activists, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Journalism, fiction, Chile, fiction, Wisconsin, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction
Places: Madison (Wis.), Chile
Time periods: 1973-1988
LC classification: PZ7.M6392 Gri 2009