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Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
Contributor(s): Santana, Patricia (Author)

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ISBN: 0826324363     ISBN-13: 9780826324368
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE: $20.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2004
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Annotation: Its April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagn can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor its clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda and her brothers and sisters learn how to be men and women and how to be Americans as well as Mexican Americans.

A captivating portrayal . . . .the novel is challenging, warm, provocative, often humorous, always engaging.Rudolfo Anaya

Patricia Santanas Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquillity will take you on an exhilarating journey through the tortured landscape of the late 1960s, and show you how the stench of a brutal foreign war and revolutionary winds at home swept into the lives on one Mexican American family in Southern California. . . . Santana takes her place among those new Chicana writers who are refashioning the face of American literature for the twenty-first century.Jorge Mariscal, University of California, San Diego, author of "Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War"

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001004433
Lexile Measure: 970(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.52" W x 8.14" L (0.69 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation - Chicano
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Locality - San Diego, California
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Cultural Region - Southern California
Features: Ikids
Review Citations: Kliatt 07/01/2004 pg. 23
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 67939
Reading Level: 6.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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It's April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahag n can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor it's clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda and her brothers and sisters learn how to be men and women and how to be Americans as well as Mexican Americans.


A captivating portrayal . . . .the novel is challenging, warm, provocative, often humorous, always engaging.--Rudolfo Anaya


Patricia Santana's Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquillity will take you on an exhilarating journey through the tortured landscape of the late 1960s, and show you how the stench of a brutal foreign war and revolutionary winds at home swept into the lives on one Mexican American family in Southern California. . . . Santana takes her place among those new Chicana writers who are refashioning the face of American literature for the twenty-first century.--Jorge Mariscal, University of California, San Diego, author of Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War


Contributor Bio(s): Santana, Patricia: - Patricia Santana is chair of the foreign languages department and professor of Spanish at Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, California. Her earlier book, Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility (UNM Press), received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and was selected by the American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults.
 
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