Floricanto Press Latino Books
"Por nuestra cultura hablarán nuestros libros."
"Our books shall speak for our culture."
La Gringa. By Pedro Martínez. ISBN: 978-0-915745-94-4. $24.95.
Joe García, a Marine Colonel and childhood friend devoted to the President, Jade Stewart, La Gringa, is also told from multiple points of view that push at the edges of literary tradition. The deciphering of the Da Vinci Code discovered Jade Stewart as the descendent of the Davidic Dynasty. Her existence threatens the legitimacy of Christian orthodoxy, and she is anathema to the Christian fundamentalists.
Hispanic literature, Latino literature, Mexican American literature, Latin American literature, Chicano literature, Latino barrio in fiction, Chicanos social life and customs Fiction, Mexican Americans social life and customs Fiction, Latinos social life and customs Fiction,
