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PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, Skyhorse tells the story of his own upbringing in a working-class area of Los Angeles, trying to find a father figure. He lives with both his mother and grandmother and though actually of Mexican descent, his mother has him and everyone else believing that he and she are Native American, as she believes this gives them greater cachet. Supposedly abandoned by ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More