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Originally a short story appearing in Buzz magazine, this raw tale of East L.A. gang life revolves around two teenage girls coming of age in a brutal, male-dominated world. A first novel. Tour.
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This powerful, deft, and fast-moving first novel reads like a direct line to the hearts and lives of two young girls of Mexican descent living in the gang-dominated stratum of Echo Park, a tough Los Angeles neighborhood. The story is told alternately through the voices of Lucia and Celia, who through family and love are linked to the dangerous center of an emergent, fast-growing Latino gang dealing in guns and drugs. Celia watches her beloved older brother as he rises in power as gangbanger and changes in frightening ways, yet she herself struggles to find a way to live a life of goodness. Lucia, meanwhile, transgresses barriers in her own culture by forming her own female gang, the Fire Girls. Murray has a musician's ear for the language of these women, the first-generation children of immigrants coming of age in a violent place where the roles and rules of their mothers no longer obtain.
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Yxta Maya Murray is an associate professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
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- PublisherGrove Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0802116051
- ISBN 13 9780802116055
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages248
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