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Their dogs came with them (2000)

Their dogs came with them (2000)

Literary Fiction

Helena María Viramontes

Year: 2000
Authors: Helena María Viramontes
Print type: BOOK

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.