Author: Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez. Published by Arte Publico Press, Houston, TX, 2002. 1st Edition. Signed, Dedicated & Dated by Author. Printed in USA. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book.ย
BREAKING EVEN: This coming-of-age novel with Mexican-American roots and Hollywood ambitions follows eighteen-year-old Val in his determination to search for his long-lost father immediately after graduating high school.
The quest to find his American father provides Val an escape from a small West Texas town where life has been difficult because his unwed mother is Mexican, and where he is facing a forced marriage to his high-school sweetheart.ย The journey leads him to poker games in El Paso; a barroom brawl in Juarez, Mexico; Black Jack tables in Lake Tahoe; and a high-stakes private poker party in Reno. Ultimately, the reunion not only gives him the father he'd thought dead but also a new-found pride in his Mexican heritage and the courage to follow his dream.
