Leaving Home (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lionel G. García
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1940’s
- Setting: Southern California
- Principal Characters: Adolfo, Maria, Carmen, The Professor (Manuel Garcia), Isabel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, 1940’s, World War II, California, West, U.S., Multiculturalism, Baseball, Latinos, Tuberculosis
- Locales: California
The Novel
Lionel G. García’s Leaving Home offers an intimate view of one Latino family in the early 1940’s. The novel examines the pain of breaking family ties, identity crisis, and racism.
In Leaving Home, García is the narrator, telling the story almost entirely in a third-person omniscient voice. At one point in the novel, the author intrudes into the action using the first-person voice, and at another point, he addresses the audience directly in the second person.
As the novel opens, the aging Adolfo, a former major-league baseball pitcher...
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