Bodega Dreams (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernesto Quiñonez
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Contemporary
- Setting: New York’s East Harlem
- Principal Characters: Julio Mercado, “Chino,”, Nancy Saldivia, “Blanca,”, William Carlos Irizarry, “Willie Bodega,”, Enrique Guzman, “Sapo,”, Edwin Nazario, Veronica Saldivia/Vera Vidal
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, New York City, Friendship, Harlem, American Dream, Drug trafficking or dealing, Latinos, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans
- Locales: Harlem, NY
The last time that a fourth-grade teacher wrote a book that attracted widespread attention was in the late 1960’s. Then it was Jonathan Kozol, the Harvard graduate whose Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (1967) was both a firsthand account of life in one of Boston’s inner-city schools and a devastating indictment of an educational system willing to write off a large number of children, mainly poor and black. Published at a time of political and social activism, Kozol’s book had a profound effect on...
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