Author: | Judith Ortiz Cofer | ISBN: | 9780820340104 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press | Publication: | March 15, 2011 |
Imprint: | University of Georgia Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Judith Ortiz Cofer |
ISBN: | 9780820340104 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
Publication: | March 15, 2011 |
Imprint: | University of Georgia Press |
Language: | English |
Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer.
Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer.