Going Under: A Novel

By Virgil Suárez

He's fast. He's nervous. He's outrunning family and friends. Xavier Cuevas is on the threadmill in blind pursuit of the American Dream. Going nowhere. Going under. Xavier is having trouble keeping... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558851593
• ISBN13: 9781558851597
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

YUCA on the edge

Wild tale of a frenetic Young Upward Cuban-American (YUCA). Suarez seems able to take the reader on an exciting ride (like Miami's traffic) and explore deeper cultural issues. For me it was an introduction to some Cuban culture that doesn't make it into the Miami Herald, such as a sanetera (faith healer) and conga playing. Suarez seems to write about what he knows. A compelling and quick read!

Suarez' Going Under captures life on the hyphen!

A new wave of fiction by and about 2nd generation Hispanic Americans has finally arrived. Virgil Suarez' Going Under seeks what it means to be Cuban American in Maimi. The sweet success and bitter failure of Cuban in the US has never been more candidly explored in fiction