Names on a Map : A Novel Paperback - 2008
by Saenz, Benjamin Alire
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Names on a Map : A Novel
- Author Saenz, Benjamin Alire
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 423
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2008
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 7981879-6
- ISBN 9780061285691
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Lgbt
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From the rear cover
The Espejo family of El Paso, Texas, is like so many others in America in 1967, trying to make sense of a rapidly escalating war they feel does not concern them. But when the eldest son, Gustavo, a complex and errant rebel, receives a certified letter ordering him to report to basic training, he chooses to flee instead to Mexico. Retreating back to the land of his grandfather--a foreign country to which he is no longer culturally connected--Gustavo sets into motion a series of events that will have catastrophic consequences on the fragile bonds holding the family together.
Told with raw power and searing bluntness, and filled with important themes as immediate as today's headlines, Names on a Map is arguably the most important work to date of a major American literary artist.
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 12/15/2007, Page 25
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2008, Page 64
- Library Journal, 01/15/2008, Page 87
- Poder Hispanic, 04/01/2008, Page 62
- Publishers Weekly, 11/12/2007, Page 34
