ANGELEÑOS: Ron Schuler's Latest Release is a Novel of Old L.A.
Marquez Press is pleased to announce the release of ANGELEÑOS: L.A.'S GOLDEN AGE (a Novel) on September 8, 2020.
A grandson of Mexican immigrants, Ron Schuler draws deeply upon his family background in his first novel to tell a fictionalized tale of two families who arrive in East Los Angeles in 1919: the Martín family, fleeing the Revolution in Zacatecas, Mexico through Arizona copper mines and ranchos southeast of L.A.; and the Baumiller family, after a wildcat strike goes awry in Kansas City, Kansas, starting a new life in the American City of Last Resort. A descendant of both families—half-Mexican, half-Anglo, known by his genealogy website handle “bauwau685”—returns to the West Coast and searches for his roots among the traces of these families and amid the Golden Age of L.A. itself … its old boxing gyms and speakeasies, its after-hours clubs, Bible rallies and quack doctors, California politicians and the fringes of Hollywood, the unraveling of the streetcar system and the sinister launch of the aerospace industry, and against an undercurrent of atmospheric and internalized racism toward Mexican-Americans. In the process, “bauwau685” uncovers tragic secrets that were never meant to be exposed and discovers the extent to which identities can be fabricated and reimagined in a city in which image is everything, and truth is ephemeral.
Lori Jakiela, author of BELIEF IS ITS OWN KIND OF TRUTH, MAYBE (Atticus Books, 2015) writes the book is written in "lush but tightly-wrought prose reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and Gabriel García Márquez." She writes that the book is "a gift for any reader interested in that most essential human quest – how we can understand our lives through the lives and hearts of those who came before us."
Richard Soto, founder of the Chicano Research Center in Stockton, California, writes that ANGELEÑOS is "a well-thought-out novel about immigrants and migrants—newcomers trying to figure out how to live and fit into Los Angeles during the 1920s, 30s and 40s … Schuler carefully builds his characters and places them in a well-researched and accurate depiction of the era, weaving them through a maze of historical events toward the unexpected and surprising end."
The book is available in hardcover, paperback and eBook on Amazon, or through your local bookstore.
A grandson of Mexican immigrants, Ron Schuler draws deeply upon his family background in his first novel to tell a fictionalized tale of two families who arrive in East Los Angeles in 1919: the Martín family, fleeing the Revolution in Zacatecas, Mexico through Arizona copper mines and ranchos southeast of L.A.; and the Baumiller family, after a wildcat strike goes awry in Kansas City, Kansas, starting a new life in the American City of Last Resort. A descendant of both families—half-Mexican, half-Anglo, known by his genealogy website handle “bauwau685”—returns to the West Coast and searches for his roots among the traces of these families and amid the Golden Age of L.A. itself … its old boxing gyms and speakeasies, its after-hours clubs, Bible rallies and quack doctors, California politicians and the fringes of Hollywood, the unraveling of the streetcar system and the sinister launch of the aerospace industry, and against an undercurrent of atmospheric and internalized racism toward Mexican-Americans. In the process, “bauwau685” uncovers tragic secrets that were never meant to be exposed and discovers the extent to which identities can be fabricated and reimagined in a city in which image is everything, and truth is ephemeral.
Lori Jakiela, author of BELIEF IS ITS OWN KIND OF TRUTH, MAYBE (Atticus Books, 2015) writes the book is written in "lush but tightly-wrought prose reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and Gabriel García Márquez." She writes that the book is "a gift for any reader interested in that most essential human quest – how we can understand our lives through the lives and hearts of those who came before us."
Richard Soto, founder of the Chicano Research Center in Stockton, California, writes that ANGELEÑOS is "a well-thought-out novel about immigrants and migrants—newcomers trying to figure out how to live and fit into Los Angeles during the 1920s, 30s and 40s … Schuler carefully builds his characters and places them in a well-researched and accurate depiction of the era, weaving them through a maze of historical events toward the unexpected and surprising end."
The book is available in hardcover, paperback and eBook on Amazon, or through your local bookstore.
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