A provocative, critically acclaimed account of the author's life as a fifteen-year-old gang member in East Los Angeles and his Herculean effort to break loose of the culture of violence, drug use, and crime. Reprint. NYT.
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About the Author:
The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Visit him at LuisJRodriguez.com.
Language Notes:
Text: Spanish (translation)
Original Language: English
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- PublisherFireside
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0684815516
- ISBN 13 9780684815510
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages284
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