The Madonnas of Echo Park
by Skyhorse, Brando
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1439170800
- ISBN 13
- 9781439170809
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Synopsis
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 voiceâÈ'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, âÈêthe land that belongs to us again.âÈë Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.
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- Thleodore Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002059
- Title
- The Madonnas of Echo Park
- Author
- Skyhorse, Brando
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1439170800
- ISBN 13
- 9781439170809
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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