A Shroud in the Family

By Lionel G. Garcia

Lionel Garcia's second novel demythologizes the Texas past while creating an accurate, although satirized, portrayal of Mexican-American life in the modern metropolis. Garcia is the master of humor, the incongruous tale and dialogue. He is the winner of the PEN Southwest Award.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934770719
• ISBN13: 9780934770712
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Arte Publico Pr
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Texas masterpiece

Lionel Garcia's A SHROUD IN THE FAMILY is a strange and very funny book. Throughout the book, characters are crossing boundaries-- from myth into reality, the past into the present, the Hispanic Texas into the Anglo Texas-- and Garcia keeps it all barrelling forward until the comic, catastrophic ending. A great book by a great, if somewhat neglected, author.