Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fiction. Latino Studies. The "Hollywood" where Sammy Santos and Juliana Rios live is not the Coast one, the one with all the glitz and glitter. this Hollywood is a tough barrio at the edge of a small town in southern New Mexico. Sammy and his friendsmembers of the 1969 high school graduating class-face a world of racism, dress codes, war in Vietnam and barrio violence. A young adult novel Latino styleit's 1969 and Hollywood is a dirt-poor barrio in small-town America.
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