Title: Their dogs came with them
First published: 2000
Description: In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth.
Subjects: East Los Angeles, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Mexican American neighborhoods, Women, Express highways, Design and construction, Fiction, political, Los angeles (calif.), fiction
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time periods: 1960's