Helena Maria Viramontes: 2 books
Their Dogs Came with Them
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel.
In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through...
by Helena Maria Viramontes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
“Stunning.”—Newsweek
With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the...