Bodega dreams

Ernesto Quiñonez

About this book

The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty--and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Bodega turns to Chino, a smart, promising young man, for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder.--From publisher description.

Subjects

  • criminal behavior
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, thrillers, suspense
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • puerto ricans