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With a cast of characters so vivid they seem to leap from the page, this collection of linked short stories offers a portrait of individuals aching to find their place in an indifferent world. The characters who inhabit these stories -- teenagers, beauty queens, race car drivers, and even grandfathers -- fall in love, strive to make ends meet, or search for answers to their future while reconciling the past. Michael Jaime-Becerra casts a warm ...

In this intimate and moving first novel, Jaime-Becerra sheds light on the lives of working class Mexican-Americans, writing about a Southern California that not enough people know (Susan Straight).