{"product_id":"the-flowers-paperback","title":"The Flowers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDagoberto Gilb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDagoberto Gilb is \"one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and \u003ci\u003eThe Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed\" (Larry McMurtry).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives with his vivacious mother. But when she marries an Okie building contractor, they are uprooted to a small apartment building in a city where prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Sonny meets his new neighbors, he is inexorably ensnared in their lives: Cindy, a married, bored, drugged-up eighteen-year-old; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother despite never being allowed to leave her apartment: Pink, an albino black man who sells old cars in front of the building; and Bud, a muscle-bound construction worker who hates blacks and Mexicans, even while he's married to a Mexican-American woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn arguably his most powerful work yet, Dagoberto Gilb has written \"a psychologically complex novel\" that transcends age, race, and time, displaying the fearlessness and wit that have helped make him one of America's most authentic and original voices (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDagoberto Gilb\u003c\/b\u003e's previous books are \u003ci\u003eGritos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWoodcuts of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Magic of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Hemingway Award. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many magazines, most recently \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, and is reprinted widely. Gilb is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been a finalist for both the PEN\/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award. He makes his home in Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 03, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46610143248428,"sku":"9780802144027","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/i5RyZVE8Lf9780802144027.webp?v=1794203476","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/the-flowers-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}