Bodega Dreams

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Serpent's Tail, 2000 - Fiction - 213 pages
William Irizzari has reinvented himself as Willie Bodega, a drug lord who plans to use his money to buy and renovate his areas comdemned buildings. Told by Chino, a young graffiti artist, this is the story of whether hope and loyalty can survive in a world of crime.

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Ernesto Quinoñez was born in Ecuador but raised in Spanish Harlem, and attended the City College Creative Writing Programme where he studied under Walter Mosley. Bodega Dreams has earned him the Jerome Lowell Dejur Award and a place on the Village Voice's 'Writers on the Verge' list for 2000. He lives in New York City where he teaches at public schools.

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