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Four young women struggle with violence and poverty in East L.A., including homeless gang member Turtle; Ana, who cares for a mentally ill brother; teen victim of the hard-knock life Ermilia; and missionary's daughter Tranquilina. By the Luis Leal Award-winning author of The Moths. 20,000 first printing.
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"The novel will no doubt -- like her other work -- break ground and enrich the range and vision of our American literature. I hope you, too, will feel the enthusiasm and faith in her work that I do." -- Julia Alvarez
"Helena María Viramontes's power is in her heartfelt observations about the forgotten poor. Not simply the poor, I mean the despised and reviled: the homeless, the immigrant, the cholas and cholos. This novel takes flight in its accurate portrayal of its characters' language and landscape. She is as compassionate as John Steinbeck, as sweeping as the unflinching camera of Sebastião Salgado." -- Sandra Cisneros, author of "Caramelo" and "The House on Mango Street"
""Their Dogs Came with Them" is a book that is upon you before you know it and once read cannot be shaken. A bravura performance by one of our country's finest talents. Extraordinary." -- Junot Diaz, author of "Drown""
"Viramontes's voice [is] at once terse, energetic and vivid." -- Publishers Weekly
"A vibrant portrait of a violent street culture." -- Booklist
"Helena Maria Viramontes's power is in her heartfelt observations about the forgotten poor. Not simply the poor, I mean the despised and reviled: the homeless, the immigrant, the cholas and cholos. This novel takes flight in its accurate portrayal of its characters' language and landscape. She is as compassionate as John Steinbeck, as sweeping as the unflinching camera of Sebastiao Salgado." -- Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street
"Their Dogs Came with Them is a book that is upon you before you know it and once read cannot be shaken. A bravura performance by one of our country's finest talents. Extraordinary." -- Junot Diaz, author of Drown
"Written with an honesty and compassion that is lacking in our time, Their Dogs Came with Them illuminates a people and place where hopes arise and are defeated, only to arise again. With elegance and poetic precision, Helena Maria Viramontes has captured a humanity that will not stay down, no matter what the odds. Like the characters in this novel, her prose is a warm breath of the real thing." -- Ernesto Quinonez, author of Chango's Fire
About the Author
Helena Maria Viramontes is a professor in the Department of English at Cornell University.
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- PublisherAtria Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0743287665
- ISBN 13 9780743287661
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages328
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