10 Terrific Reads of 2010
O's top picks take us from the trenches of World War II to forbidden love in Britain to an apocalyptic New York future.
The Madonnas of Echo Park
By Brando Skyhorse
199 pages; Free Press Culture, identity, and politics are just a few of the threads masterfully woven through the partly autobiographical novel of linked stories that is
The Madonnas of Echo Park. Author Brando Skyhorse—so named because his mother revered the famous actor—grew up in the largely Mexican-American L.A. neighborhood of the title, which explains his understanding of its residents: among them a gang member, a day laborer, and a little girl tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Published 06/18/2010
