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House Divided (Class H #2)
by
Raul Ramos y Sanchez (Goodreads Author)
Once they had a country, a culture, a future. Today, upheaval and betrayal have turned their world upside down. And for one family-a U.S. war hero, his deeply religious wife, and their impressionable fourteen-year-old son-a new struggle has just begun.
Mano Suarez made a choice to fight against injustice, and his wife can only pray for his deliverance. Now their son, Pedro,...more
Mano Suarez made a choice to fight against injustice, and his wife can only pray for his deliverance. Now their son, Pedro,...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
January 28th 2011
by Grand Central Publishing
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House Divided: A body blow to the American conscience
First, some full disclosure is in order. I loved the first novel in this series by Raul Ramos y Sanchez: America Libre. It is an important, disturbing and provocative work that depicts a frightening America of the future, deeply fractured by Latino-Anglo civil war. So I admit I was a bit wary when I began reading the second novel, House Divided. So often with books and films, the follow-up is disappointing, paling in comparison with the origin...more
First, some full disclosure is in order. I loved the first novel in this series by Raul Ramos y Sanchez: America Libre. It is an important, disturbing and provocative work that depicts a frightening America of the future, deeply fractured by Latino-Anglo civil war. So I admit I was a bit wary when I began reading the second novel, House Divided. So often with books and films, the follow-up is disappointing, paling in comparison with the origin...more
I loved this book!
Mano Suarez, a former decorated U.S. Army veteran turned insurgent, and his family live in a Los Angeles barrio scarred by many years of ethnic war. His focus is to keep his family together and survive. His wife, Rosa, is deeply religious and opposes the fighting. His son, Pedro, is a teenager trying to find himself; in the process, Pedro joins an extremist group that attacks innocent civilians. This does not set well with his father, who must battle both a fractured country do...more
Mano Suarez, a former decorated U.S. Army veteran turned insurgent, and his family live in a Los Angeles barrio scarred by many years of ethnic war. His focus is to keep his family together and survive. His wife, Rosa, is deeply religious and opposes the fighting. His son, Pedro, is a teenager trying to find himself; in the process, Pedro joins an extremist group that attacks innocent civilians. This does not set well with his father, who must battle both a fractured country do...more
Written as a near-future fiction of "what if" the hispanic population in the U.S.A. was quarantined into zones and treated as terrorists. It had an allegorical feel. The author makes a lot of parallels to what is going on in the world today in different countries. I thought he did a fair side of presenting both sides of the conflict- although you definitely sense that he leans more towards the hispanics. Thought provoking and interesting. There is some bad language.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez took me to an L.A. with which I am not familiar and quite frankly hope never to be. House Divided vividly describes what can go wrong in a multi ethnic city full of fear but it also inspires as it describes what can go right with the human spirit. Raul Ramos Y Sanchez is Cuban born, raised in both New York City and Cuba and he draws from his own experience and considerable insight into the human soul to create this book.
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“January” is the first English word I ever learned. I read it on the calendar thumbtacked to the wall of our apartment in the Bronx. Han-noo-a-ree, I pronounced it. That was in the winter of 1957. My mother had just divorced my father and moved us from Havana to New York City. My father was busy trying to overthrow Batista and my mother thought her prospects for raising a seven-year-old son looked...more
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