Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio - and this is their world.
【作者简介】
Judith Oritz Coffer a native of Puerto Rico, is the author of several books, including Call Me Maria. Among her many distinguished awards is a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1984, she joined the faculty of the University of Georgia, where she is now a professor of English and Creative Writing.
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