A young Puerto Rican" Americanized" son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents, a break that can't be made until the assimilated hero learns to accept the ethnic heritage that he has spent his life trying to suppress. Â Jose' Rivera's beautiful 1980's prose illuminates a topic that has become increasingly contemporary.Â
A young Puerto Rican" Americanized" son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents, a break that can't be made until the assimilated hero learns to accept the ethnic heritage that he has spent his life trying to suppress. Â Jose' Rivera's beautiful 1980's prose illuminates a topic that has become increasingly contemporary.Â
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