Becky and Her Friends

by Rolando Hinojosa

Overview

Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa’s Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas.

In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women’s culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a glimpse through the eyes of the female side of Klail City.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781518502408
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	04/12/2017
Series:	Klail City Death Trip Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

ROLANDO HINOJOSA, the Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of the Klail City Death Trip Series of novels, which examine relations between Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town, Klail City, Texas. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the most prestigious prize in Latin American fiction, Casa de las Américas, for the best Spanish American novel in 1976. Several of his novels have been translated into German, and The New York Times Book Review has compared him to William Faulkner. His books include A Voice of My Own (2011), Partners in Crime (2011), We Happy Few (2006), Ask a Policeman (1998), The Useless Servants (1993), Becky and Her Friends (1989), Dear Rafe (1985) and Rites and Witnesses (1982) all of which are published by Arte Público Press.