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The Espejo family of El Paso, Texas, is like so many others in America in 1967, trying to make sense of a rapidly escalating war they feel does not concern them. But when the eldest son, Gustavo, a complex and errant rebel, receives a certified letter ordering him to report to basic training, he chooses to flee instead to Mexico. Retreating back to the land of his grandfather--a foreign country to which he is no longer culturally connected--Gustavo sets into motion a series of events that will have catastrophic consequences on the fragile bonds holding the family together.
Told with raw power and searing bluntness, and filled with important themes as immediate as today's headlines, Names on a Map is arguably the most important work to date of a major American literary artist.
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- Title Names on a map a novel
- Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 423
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9780061285691
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- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Topical: Family
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/15/2007, Page 25
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2008, Page 64
- Library Journal, 01/15/2008, Page 87
- Poder Hispanic, 04/01/2008, Page 62
- Publishers Weekly, 11/12/2007, Page 34
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