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ISBN: 0-927534-67-3
176 pp. | paper only | $15.00

Ricardo Pimentel

In 1967 San Bernardino, the Rivera family is on the verge of upheaval. Fidel, the family patriarch, is discovering that his normally docile wife, Soledad, is no longer content to share him with his mistress. Soledad, fed up with double standards, is determined to stand up for her rights and insists on a change. Meanwhile, their eldest son, Bert, is on his way to fight in Vietnam, leaving behind his pregnant wife; and their precocious younger son, Gaby, is being enticed into the glamorous and violent world of gangs. When Soledad falls in love with the sergeant who has recruited Bert, she exacts from him a promise that will permanently change the way the Rivera family think and feel about each other.

Ricardo Pimentel was born in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrants. His parents valued education and passed their respect for learning on to their children. Ricardo knew early on that he wanted to write. He became a U.S. Navy journalist and has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in California, Washington, D.C., and Arizona. Currently he is executive editor at the San Bernardino County Sun.

". . . deserves an esteemed place among the growing library of well-crafted, culturally diverse books. . . " - Luis J. Rodríguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.