Music of the mill : a novel

Rodriguez, Luis J. 1954- (Author).

Summary: Thirty-year-old Azucena Salcido attends her father's deathbed while remembering how their family was entangled in the politics, racial polarization, and corrupt power struggles that marked late twentieth-century California.

Item details

ISBN: 0060560762 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780060560768 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Rayo, 2005.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I. Procopio's prelude -- Estamos Chingados -- pt. II. The Nazareth suite -- 1. Clockwork -- 2. Payday -- 3. Nights, walls, and a baby -- 4. Elections -- 5. New birth -- 6. Exiled -- 7. Desperate -- 8. Steel's vendetta -- pt. III. Azucena's finale -- 9. Dying as sweet as the sun's breath -- 10. Like love -- 11. The floating world -- 12. Healing -- 13. Heat -- 14. Deathless.

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Subject:

Mexican American families Fiction
Steel industry and trade Fiction
Children of immigrants Fiction
Iron and steel workers Fiction
Mexican Americans Fiction
Yaqui Indians Fiction
Immigrants Fiction
California, Southern Fiction

Genre:

Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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