Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility (Paperback, New Ed)

Its April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagn can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor its clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda and her brothers and sisters learn how to be men and women and how to be Americans as well as Mexican Americans.

A captivating portrayal . . . .the novel is challenging, warm, provocative, often humorous, always engaging.Rudolfo Anaya

Patricia Santanas Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquillity will take you on an exhilarating journey through the tortured landscape of the late 1960s, and show you how the stench of a brutal foreign war and revolutionary winds at home swept into the lives on one Mexican American family in Southern California. . . . Santana takes her place among those new Chicana writers who are refashioning the face of American literature for the twenty-first century.Jorge Mariscal, University of California, San Diego, author of "Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War"

General

Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Patricia Santana
Dimensions:	205 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8263-2436-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-8263-2436-3
Barcode:	9780826324368

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