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CrashBoomLove : a novel in verse

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Description

ix, 155 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"In this novel in verse - unprecedented in Chicano literature - poet Juan Felipe Herrera illuminates the soul of a generation. Drawn from his own life as well as a lifetime of dedication to young people, CrashBoomLove helps readers understand what it is to be a teen, a migrant worker, and a boy wanting to be a boy."--BOOK JACKET.
"Sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia is careening. His father, Papi Cesar, has left the migrant circuit in California for his other wife and children in Denver. Sweet Mama Lucy tries to provide for her son with dichos and tales of her own misspent youth. But at Rambling West High School in Fowlerville, the sides are drawn: Hmongs vs. Chicanos vs. everybody vs. Cesar, the new kid on the block."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Mexican Americans > Juvenile fiction

ISBN

LCCN

99006603

OCLC

ocm41497003

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries