Klail City (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Roland Hinojosa-Smith
- First Published: 1976
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Revenge, Mexican Americans, Migrant labor, Southwest, Mexico or Mexicans, Orphans or orphanages, Latinos, Texas, High schools or high school students
The Work
Klail City is part of the Klail City Death Trip, a chronicle of the Texas Rio Grande Valley. This novel moves between past and present so that the past and the present often appear to be the same. Like most of Rolando Hinojosa’s novels, Klail City lacks linear plot development. A series of vignettes create a sense of place and ultimately present a picture of a changing world. Several narrators, including the main characters of the series, Rafe Buenrostro (“Buenrostro” means “good face”) and Jehú Malacara (“Malacara” means “bad face”)...
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