Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, 1956-

Gringolandia / by Lyn Miller-Lachmann. - 1st ed. - Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2009. - 279 p. ; 23 cm.

In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.

ISBN: 9781931896498 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2008036990

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Political activists--Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Fiction.
Journalists--Fiction.
Chilean Americans--Fiction.
People with disabilities--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Chile--Politics and government--1973-1988--Fiction.
Madison (Wis.)--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.M6392 / Gri 2009

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]