| Author/Contributor(s): | Rodriguez, Abraham, JR. ; Rodriguez, Jr Abraham |
| Publisher: | Milkweed Editions |
| Date: | 01/21/1999 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. captures what it's like to grow up too fast amid the crushing poverty of the South Bronx in this collection, a gritty slice of New York Latino life. The Boy Without a Flag is "about the rancid underbelly of the American Dream," says the author. "These are the kids no one likes to talk about; they are seen as the enemy by most people. I want to show them as they really are, not as society wishes them to be." In these truth-telling stories about his neighborhood of Puerto Rican adolescents growing up in the South Bronx, Rodriguez introduces us to the youth who fight every day for survival in our cities.