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Bodega dreams

Ernesto Quiñonez (Author)
The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty--and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Bodega turns to Chino, a smart, promising young man, for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder.--From publisher description
Print Book, English, 2018
Second Vintage Contemporaries edition View all formats and editions
Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, 2018
Coming of age Fiction
213 pages ; 21 cm.
9780375705892, 0375705899
1089278640
Because men who built this country were men from the streets
Because a single lawyer can steal more money than a hundred men with guns
A new language is born