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Texas Tech University Press
March 2010
On Sale: March 15, 2010
196 pages
ISBN: 089672672X
EAN: 9780896726727
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Fiction
From poet and performance artist Tim Z. Hernandez comes a
harrowing depiction of the drug abuse, poverty, and
desperation that play out in the lives of a humble farming
community in California's heartland--a region known mostly
for its agricultural wealth, and less for the stark
contradictions overshadowed by its Golden State image. Seventeen-year-old Tlaloc, whose namesake is the Aztec god
of fertility as well as destruction, chronicles a gritty
landscape of wrenching contrasts: the abundant ''breadbasket
of the world'' and its intensifying hopelessness; the daily
grind of underpaid workers in a land of plenty; raw
cucaracha lives and campesino dreams; love tragically gone
awry in the shadow of sweetly aromatic blossoms. Tlaloc's
world is populated by wetbacks, tweekers, white
trash--myriad nameless nobodies who live, love, and loathe,
unseen by the other half. Even as he navigates his closest
relationships with caution, Tlaloc seeks his escape in
writing, crafting haunting portraits of those around him and
narrating their struggles with brutal, graphic honesty.
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