A brilliant writer of place and character, Morales is also a fast-paced and finely-tuned stylist, delivering deeply emotional stories with "ripped-from-the-headlines" resonance. If ever there was a "writer to watch," he's it-the third of six children, Morales is a young, media-savvy author who has lived the stories he tells-from growing up in a tough Tucson neighborhood to putting his first set of "brand new" school clothes on layaway with the money he earned from his boyhood paper route, and from becoming a father at age eighteen to becoming the first member of his immediate family to graduate from college. A few of the chapters from this novel appeared in a 2008 chapbook published by Notre Dame's Momotombo Press. The collection received rave reviews in academic circles and the Latino community, where the novel is eagerly anticipated.

Book Information
ISBN 9781566892407
Author Aaron Michael Morales
Format Paperback
Page Count 330
Imprint Coffee House Press
Publisher Coffee House Press
Weight(grams) 454g