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A hauntingly original barrio love story and coming-of-age in the world of L.A. street music. Two young and gifted musicians, one scarred and disabled but with a sad, alluring glass eye, and the other soon to die, search for love and meaning across L.A.'s music scene.
"Romantic in the biggest sense of the word." Goodreads Review
..".an absorbing romance around Jimmy Ojotriste, the young East L.A. street musician, his enchanted glass eye, and the terminal cancer that leads his trio on a search for love and meaning across L.A.'s music scene." Goodreads Review
"Lovely novel about young mariachis finding their place in the world, soaked in a vibrant sense of place and time. Somehow captures that feeling of being twenty and seeing the world spread before you in a way I've rarely seen portrayed well." Goodreads Review
"Wrapped in the sights and sounds of 1970s Los Angeles, vibrant and nostalgic, Hernandez explores the complex intersections of race, love, poverty and coming of age...and through it all we are serenaded by his lyrical descriptions of the life and music of the mariachi." Tate Hurvitz, Phd. Grossmont College Literature Dept.
"Reminded me of Mambo Kings. Definitely for music lovers and romantics. Lyrical scenes - odd and memorable characters. Anyone interested in flamenco, mariachi, and Hispanic culture will be immersed. I learned of the book through "Las Comadres" a Latino lit reading group at our bookstore." Goodreads Review
