{"product_id":"the-madonnas-of-echo-park-9781439170847","title":"The Madonnas of Echo Park","description":"\u003cb\u003eReminiscent of Sherman Alexie and Sandra Cisneros, acclaimed author Brando Skyhorse's \"engaging storytelling\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e) brings the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles to life in this poignant and propulsive novel following several generations of Mexican immigrants through their shifting cultural and physical landscapes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Madonnas of Echo Park\u003c\/i\u003e is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voice--poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife Felicia, who narrowly survives a shooting and lands a cleaning job in a Hollywood Hills house as desolate as its owner; and young Aurora, who journeys through her now gentrified childhood neighborhood to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican-Americans dream of, \"the land that belongs to us again.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, \u003ci\u003eThe Madonnas of Echo Park\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrando Skyhorse's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Madonnas of Echo Park\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2011 PEN\/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, \u003ci\u003eTake This Man\u003c\/i\u003e, was named one of \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 and one of NBC News's 10 Best Latino Books of 2014. Skyhorse is a graduate of Stanford University and the MFA Writers' Workshop program at UC Irvine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50676330955026,"sku":"9781439170847","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85be23e0-cf26-4979-9eeb-2450eebd6afb.jpg?v=1733878152","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-madonnas-of-echo-park-9781439170847","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}