The Boy Without a Flag (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: The South Bronx
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, New York City, Roads, streets, or highways, American Dream, Inner cities or inner-city life, Single parents or single-parent families, 1990’s, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans
- Locales: Bronx, NY
The Boy Without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx is a first book of fiction from Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., a young Puerto Rican American writer whose greatest strength is his ability to capture the salsa-driven rhythms and late-night bodega rap sessions of a streetcorner posse in a quick-tongued prose style that is searingly raw and jagged-edged. These are gritty, graffiti-colored stories that reach right for the jugular, working gradually down toward the heart. Rodriguez showers light on those who live invisibly, shoved to the side, into the guttered margins, fallen between the...
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