Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature“Stunning.” -- NewsweekWith the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Vir...
Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mara Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable y...