This debut novel joins the work of Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodriguez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca in painting a rich, impressionistic canvas of growing up Chicano.
Growing Through the Ugly begins: "This is my first day of being dead but I want to ...I was conceived in Ponce, Puerto Rico. When? Suffice to say you needed a “crank” to start your car (if you had one). I came to the States fairly young and got into some nasty habits and the Army saved me from myself, and almost killed me in the p...