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What Night Brings (Working Classics)

What Night Brings focuses on a Chicano working-class family living in California during the 1960s. Marci-smart, feisty and funny-tells the story with the wisdom of someone twice her age as she determines to defy her family and God in order to find her identity, sexuality and freedom. "Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings puts one more wonderful Latina More »

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The Average Review score is 4.5 on a scale of 5.0. Total 6 reviewers are considered to generate the average review. Some of the new or latest reviews in Fiction might be helpful and interesting to you. This average review is fetched by Kirsten Tranter and posted on 13 August

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[ 5.0 stars ] "I'm very happy with my purchase. The seller went out of her way to send me the book, I received it in two days.Thank you! ..." Courtesy by Amazon
- The Fiction review is genenrated by Garreola which was written on April 18, 2011 Review fetched on August 25, 2013 by Books Central.

[ 4.0 stars ] "Set in the Bay Area of the 1960s, this novel is narrated by Marci Cruz, an eleven-year-old Latina who fervently wishes for two things. The first is for God to turn her into a boy, because she has something of a crush on Raquel, her teenaged neighbor; the second is for Eddie, her father, to disappear.A couple of times a week, Eddie beats Marci, and Corin, her younger sister, for some infraction, us ..." Courtesy by Amazon
- The Fiction review is genenrated by Paul Lappen which was written on October 24, 2006
1 users liked the review and gave their verdict that this review was intuitive enough to select or buy the Fiction out of 1 users. Review fetched on August 25, 2013 by Books Central.

[ 5.0 stars ] "What makes Carla Trujillo's book so compelling is her portrayal of the family dynamics. Although the narrator, Marci, is only 11 years old, she makes profound observations about what holds her parents' marriage together in spite of her father's brutality and hence what prevents her mother from intervening to protect the children. Trujillo balances the horror of the father's cruelty ..." Courtesy by Amazon
- The Fiction review is genenrated by LABookLover which was written on February 3, 2005 Review fetched on August 25, 2013 by Books Central.

[ 5.0 stars ] "What Night Brings is a wonderfully readable coming of age story written with the perspective of a young teen. Marci Cruz's thought process really reflects her age and circumstances, unlike some novels written in that voice with adult thoughts coming from a child protagonist. It captured my heart from the first paragraph, and I read it straight through in only a few days. Was glad to find it ..." Courtesy by Amazon
- The Fiction review is genenrated by Ellen S. Switkes which was written on August 27, 2003
3 users liked the review and gave their verdict that this review was intuitive enough to select or buy the Fiction out of 3 users. Review fetched on August 25, 2013 by Books Central.

[ 4.0 stars ] "Winner of the Marmol Prize, Trujillo's impressive debut tells the story of Marci Cruz in the late 1960s. She prays daily to become a boy because then she can win the girl of her dreams. And she also prays for God to make her alcoholic father go away. Some of the passages seem to gloss over what Marci has to deal with, but Trujillo's strength as a storyteller compels the reader forward beca ..." Courtesy by Amazon
- The Fiction review is genenrated by "blissengine" which was written on April 22, 2003 Review fetched on August 25, 2013 by Books Central.

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Product Specification
Available	Yes
Author	Carla Trujillo
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Curbstone Books
EAN	9781880684948
Edition	1
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
IsAdultProduct	0
ISBN	1880684942
Label	Curbstone Books
Manufacturer	Curbstone Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	242
ProductGroup	Book
ProductTypeName	ABIS_BOOK
PublicationDate	2003-04-01
Publisher	Curbstone Books
Studio	Curbstone Books
Title	What Night Brings (Working Classics)

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75 Profoundly appreciable score

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