Gringolandia : a novel /

Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, 1956-

Gringolandia : a novel / Lyn Miller-Lachmann. - 1st ed. - Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2009. - 279 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]).

In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.

9781931896498 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1931896496 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Political activists--Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Fiction.
Journalists--Fiction.
Chilean Americans--Fiction.
People with disabilities--Fiction.


Chile--Politics and government--1973-1988--Fiction.
Madison (Wis.)--Fiction.


Historical fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Proofs (Printing)

YA PZ 7.M6392 / Gri 2009