The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel

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The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel

Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.

The Madonnas of Echo Park is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voiceâ€”poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife Felicia, who narrowly survives a shooting and lands a cleaning job in a Hollywood Hills house as desolate as its owner; and young Aurora, who journeys through her now gentrified childhood neighborhood to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican-Americans dream of, â€œthe land that belongs to us again.â€

Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.
Country USA
Brand Free Press
Manufacturer Free Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781439170847
ReleaseDate 2011-02-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439170847

Country	USA
Brand	Free Press
Manufacturer	Free Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781439170847
ReleaseDate	2011-02-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781439170847

The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel

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