(Image credit: www.powells.com)Herrera, Juan Felipe. CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
A Mexican American navigates high school amidst racial tension, drug offerings, and blackboards swirling with words he can't read. Only when everything crashes around him, can he begin to redesign his life as a life with a future.
César Garcia is hungry. Hungry for something besides the chaos that is Rambling West High School. Hungry for more than the Welfare can provide. Hungry for an end to smashing fists and smashing words. Hungry for love, even crashboomlove.
César's world is closing in on him. He is being drawn into using drugs, the Hmongs are fighting the Chicanos, and his friends are upping their illegal activities. Is this what a migrant workers' son can expect out of life? Or is there a better place for him?
El agua es blanda, la piedra dura,
pero, gota a gota, hace cavadura.
Water is soft, rocks are hard,
but, drop by drop, water finds a way.
Will César find his way?
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