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Dagoberto Gilb

In Dagoberto Gilb’s latest novel, The Flowers, 15-year-old Mexican-American Sonny Bravo is what high school counselors call “overly sensitive.” When his mom suddenly marries a white man, Sonny is transported from his Mexican neighborhood to the racially mixed apartment complex Los Flores. There, white-vs.-black-vs.-brown prejudice is seething just below the…

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