Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
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· 14 ratings · 240 pages · Published: 01 Aug 2006
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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