Their dogs came with them
About this book
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
- design and construction
- east los angeles
- express highways
- fiction
- fiction, political
- los angeles (calif.), fiction
- mexican american neighborhoods
- mexican americans
- women