The Madonnas of Echo Park is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voice—poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife Felicia, who narrowly survives a shooting and lands a cleaning job in a Hollywood Hills house as desolate as its owner; and young Aurora, who journeys through her now gentrified childhood neighborhood to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican-Americans dream of, “the land that belongs to us again.”Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.
Brando Skyhorse Bücher
Brando Skyhorse ist der Autor des Debütromans „The Madonnas of Echo Park“, der mit dem PEN/Hemingway Award und dem Sue Kaufman Award für Erstlingswerke ausgezeichnet wurde. Seine Schriften erforschen komplexe menschliche Beziehungen und Identitäten durch lebendige, oft unerwartete Charaktere. Skyhorse's Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch ein scharfes Beobachtungsauge und einen unverwechselbaren Stil aus, der den Leser in die Tiefen menschlicher Erfahrung zieht. Als preisgekrönter Autor bringt er eine frische und fesselnde Perspektive in die Literatur ein.
