panI gotta admit, I was glad to turn the last page of this one. Interconnected short stories with first person narrations that were short on personality and long on overcooked metaphors. By the end, it seemed like Skyhorse was trying to deliver some sort of profound message but it got muddied up in a weird, unrealistic story of a daughter searching her old neighborhood for her mother‘s lost dog with a near total lack of urgency.
How did I get tricked into reading another book of interconnected short stories? 🤔
pickI've been accompanying major home cleaning projects with audiobooks so my dogs and I both listened to this one, a novel of connected stories from different points of view, most of them from the traditionally Mexican neighborhood of Echo Park, displaced by Dodger Stadium and surrounding gentrification. Strong voice, great in audio, a few racist terms that are uncomfortable.
This is on my January #tbrexplode list and I listened in #hoopla
"There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their anger--what remains is a future carved out of banality instead of blood.”
#jacaranda
It's back!
so-soSet in a Los Angeles neighbourhood inhabited by generations of Hispanic families, this book offers are interesting look at the challenges faced by a marginalized community in a large, unsympathetic city. Stories told and retold through the eyes of many characters made the book a bit hard to follow at times, but it was an interesting read.
#aprilbookishmadness #purplecover
A timely read about what it means to be an illegal immigrant in the Hispanic communities of Los Angeles. I read it awhile ago and I don't remember enough to write a review but I do remember liking it. Being a descendant of Mexican immigrants myself these stories are always held close to my heart.
pickI enjoyed this book- various characters all Just trying to find their place post-90s gangs vibe, it will take you to the 80s and anywhere in time where Latinos in LA were trying to find their place.
The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel | 
