The Skinny Years - Hardcover

Ramos Y Sanchez, Raul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0985403497 ISBN 13: 9780985403492

Publisher: Beck & Branch Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Surfers, soul brothers, hippies, and thugs—they’re all part of Victor “Skinny” Delgado’s world growing up in Miami during the turbulent 1960s. Fleeing the Castro regime in Cuba, Skinny’s once-wealthy family moves from a mansion in Havana to a roach-infested bungalow in Miami’s low-rent Wynwood district. Over the next ten years the Delgados struggle to survive in this strange new land—a place where fat men in red suits enter your home through the chimney, demons appear at the door begging for candy, and young women go on dates without chaperones. There’s only one constant in Skinny’s world as he grows from 8 to 18. He longs in vain for the girl of his dreams: his neighbor Janice Bockman who seems everything American—and everything he’s not.

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Review

"Vivid, engaging, well-paced, with compelling characters. A terrific book." Ralph Keyes, best-selling author of Is There Life After High School?

"As nervy and improbable as Oliver Twist and The Goldfinch.And that's saying a lot." Rebecca Coffey, journalist, humorist and author of Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story

"A complex, humorous, and utterly absorbing coming-of-age tale."
Foreword Reviews - Monica Carter (Five-star rated)

Edition details

• Publisher: Beck & Branch Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985403497
• ISBN 13: 9780985403492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258