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"Joey Molina had never been in a fight. The very thought of violence upset him. He only wanted to be an actor, and so he read plays and learned new words with his mother." "When he's cast in the lead role in the school play, he's eager to go home and tell his family about it, but his parents have an announcement of their own." "In a climb up the socioeconomic ladder, the Molinas move from their Central California barrio to a small town in Oregon where they are one of only three Latino families. The kids in Joey's school assume that since he's a Chicano from California, he must know about gangs and street life. This is when Joey assumes the acting role of his young life." "In order to win instant popularity, fear, and respect, he tells everyone that he was in a gang, that he was a member of vato loco, a tough street gang who fought with knifes and chains, and yes, sometimes guns ("Sometimes death was involved," he tells them). The kids listen to his stories with rapt attention. When they urge Joey to start a gang in their small Oregon town, he does, and his new friends become unwitting actors in the comedy of which he is the writer, the director, and the star. However, after years of posturing as a tough guy, he wonders, is he a gang leader, or is he still acting?"--BOOK JACKET.
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Gangs, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Ethnicity, Social life and customsPlaces
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And the shadows took him: a novel
2004, Atria Books
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- 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
0743466381 9780743466387
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