What Night Brings

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What Night Brings focuses on a Chicano working-class family living in California during the 1960s. Marci—smart, feisty and funny—tells the story with the wisdom of someone twice her age as she determines to defy her family and God in order to find her identity, sexuality and freedom.

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  What Night Brings

  • 2003-04-01
  • 242 pages
  • Ebook
  • Northwestern University Press

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