Pocho
/ José Antonio Villarreal
- Anchor Books ed
- New York : Anchor Books , 1989, c1959.
- 187 p. ; 21 cm.
Villarreal illuminates here the world of "pochos, " Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas.
9780385061186
89018204
Children of immigrants---Fiction Mexican Americans---Fiction Young men----Fiction