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Casares, Oscar , 1964-

Amigoland : a novel / Oscar Casares - New York : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Co. , c2009. - 357 p. ; 22 cm.

In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino's good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather's kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it's never too late for a new beginning. With winsome prose and heartfelt humor, Oscar Casares's debut novel of family lost and found radiates with generosity and grace and confirms the arrival of a uniquely talented new writer.

ISBN: 9780316018838

LCCN: 2008045123

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Older men----Fiction
Brothers----Fiction
Mexican Americans----Fiction
Nursing home patients----Fiction
Reminiscing in old age ----Fiction
Voyages and travel----Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Brownsville (TX)----Fiction
Mexico----Fiction

LC Class. No.: PS3603.A83 / A59 2009

Dewey Class. No.: FIC CAS