Always Running (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Luis J. Rodríguez
- First Published: 1993
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Discrimination, Maturation or coming of age, Adolescence, Teenagers, Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, Social issues, Gangs, youth, Ethnic groups, Minorities, Drugs, Mexican Americans, Latinos
The Work
Luis J. Rodríguez began writing Always Running as a sixteen-year-old gang member in East Los Angeles, but he did not complete it until his own son, Ramiro, joined a similar street gang in Chicago at age fifteen. Rodríguez’s description of la vida loca (the crazy life) is a testament to his difficult adolescence in a poor barrio, a memorial to friends of days and times long dead or lost, and an attempt to communicate with his son and save him from a fate that Rodríguez himself narrowly escaped.
As have many children of Spanish-speaking...
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