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Breathing, in dust /

"Stories of the drug abuse, poverty, and desperation of a farming community located in California's agriculturally wealthy heartland, home to a large immigrant population and a high rate of violent crime. Chronicling one young boy's coming-of-age, the stories reveal a deeper layer of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernandez, Tim Z.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2010]
Series:Americas (Lubbock, Tex.)
Subjects:
Agriculture > Social aspects > California > Fiction.
Immigrants > California > Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Table of Contents:
  • What it means to say Catela
  • Animal
  • The ashes
  • Powell, Wyoming
  • Bread
  • Hunting
  • The legend of Adrastos
  • Ghosts of Tiburcio Vasquez
  • The rains have come and Cesar Chavez is dead
  • How to catch a train
  • Norma's lines
  • The pallbearer
  • Antifaz
  • Windfallen
  • Talina
  • Alejandro's Akashic
  • The killer
  • Querida Catela
  • Days of fertility
  • The eleventh step
  • The bachelor party
  • Epilogue.