Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility - Softcover

Patricia Santana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826324363 ISBN 13: 9780826324368

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2004

Synopsis

It's April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait to see her favourite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honour it's clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda and her brothers and sisters learn how to be men and women and how to be Americans as well as Mexican Americans.

About this title

Review:

"Edgy and interesting, this is a great first novel. Buy it!"

"This proud Chicana has the strength and savvy to take all that life has to offer, and to make it her own. Following her journey is pure pleasure."

"Seasoned with salty dashes of Spanish and radiant with family warmth and affection, Santana's 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest-winning first novel tells the tender coming-of-age tale of a young Chicana in 1969 San Diego. . . . Santana has her finger on the pulse of Mexican-American life in Southern California."

About the Author:

Patricia Santana is chair of the foreign languages department and professor of Spanish at Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, California. Her earlier book, Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility (UNM Press), received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and was selected by the American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0826324363
• ISBN 13: 9780826324368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276