Gilb, Dagoberto, 1950-

The flowers / Dagoberto Gilb. - 1st ed. - New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2008. - 250 p. ; 22 cm.

Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When his mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbors and becomes ensnared in their lives.

ISBN: 0802118593 9780802118592 9780802144027 (pbk.) 0802144020 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2010282925

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hispanic American teenage boys--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
Working poor--Fiction.
Apartment houses--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.

LC Class. No.: PS3557.I296 / F58 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54