Portrays three generations of a Mexican-American family living in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, and looks at how the family's troubled existence is complicated when they are forced to work as migrant laborers and drug smugglers...
Like a Carlos Santana riff on a Miguel de Cervantes theme, The Quijote Cult is a lyrical, satirical look at a group of Vietnam-era Chicano college students - and would-be radical activists - who gulp down amphetamines as eagerly as they devour the wr...
Brothers Gabriel and Gustavo are high school students, born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. When their father suggests they spend the summer in California doing field work to earn extra money, the boys are horrified. The idea of picking...
Brothers Gabriel and Gustavo, high school students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, are horrified when their father suggests that they spend the summer in California doing field work to earn extra money. They're not immigrants; the boys and their y...
This story is a work of fi ction Whatever references to any historical event real people whether living or dead and real locales are intended only to give this fi ctitious work a setting of historic reality Other names characters and incidents are ei...
The late 1960s was a heady time to come to adulthood, even in deep South Texas. When the narrator of The Quixote Cult -- known simply as De la O -- begins college, he discovers a world of political activists, Vietnam veterans, small-time drug dealers...