{"product_id":"their-dogs-came-with-them-paperback","title":"Their Dogs Came with Them - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelena Maria Viramontes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelena Maria Viramontes brings 1960s Los Angeles to life with \"terse, energetic, and vivid\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) prose in this story of a group of young Latinx women fighting to survive and thrive in a tumultuous world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes \"one of the important multicultural voices of American literature.\" \u003ci\u003eTheir Dogs Came with Them\u003c\/i\u003e further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelena María Viramontes is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moths and Other Storie\u003c\/i\u003es and \u003ci\u003eUnder the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e; and the coeditor of two collections: \u003ci\u003eChicana (W)Rites: On Word and Film\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicana Creativity and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of the 2006 Luis Leal Award and the John Dos Passos Award for Literature, and her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and adopted for classroom use and university study. Viramontes lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a professor in the Department of English at Cornell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47436199919794,"sku":"9781416588344","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/466ebe5c8ebd6c2bd65f1aa6d26df1f4.webp?v=1778640956","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/their-dogs-came-with-them-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}