false 1849082 2 <div>Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When Sonny&#8217;s mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbors and becomes ensnared in their lives: Cindy, an eighteen-year-old druggie who is married and bored; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother but who is never allowed to leave their unit. The other tenants range from Pink, an albino black man who sells old cars in front of the building, to Bud, a muscled-up construction worker who hates blacks and Mexicans, even while he&#8217;s married to a Mexican-American woman. Dagoberto Gilb, in arguably his most powerful work yet, has written an inspiring novel about hate, pain, anger, and love that transcends age, race, and time. Gilb&#8217;s novel displays the fearlessness and wit that have helped make him one of this country&#8217;s most authentic and original voices.</div> 1849561 21 1 2008 The Flowers: A Novel total:63|5:8|4:21|3:17|2:12|1:5| 63 204 148 19 1849082 0802118593 9780802118592 57 16 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189177769m/1849082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1849082.The_Flowers_A_Novel 5 5 false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 10:51:42 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 16:11:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6081417 0802144020 9780802144027 6 2 3.24 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6081417.The_Flowers 0 1 false Tue Feb 10 11:07:21 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 11:38:37 -0800 2009 http://www.identitytheory.com/bookblog/i...)


Spurred by what one critic said of Dagoberto Gilb's The Flowers (that its narrator Sonny Bravo could be Holden Caulfield), I read The Flowers then reread Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. The narra...more...]]> 1849082 0802118593 9780802118592 57 16 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189177769m/1849082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1849082.The_Flowers_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:55:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:55:25 -0800 2009 Dagoberto Gilb, winner of the PEN/Hemmingway award for his 1994 short story collection The Magic of Blood, hasn't written a novel since The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña (1994). With The Flowers, he has blazed back onto the literary scene. Once again, he earns rave reviews from critics wh...

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