Hardscrub

By Lionel G. Garcia

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558850058
• ISBN13: 9781558850057
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Award winning book that has yet to be discovered

I have not been able to stop thinking about this book for the past three years, since I read it in a Latino Literature class in college.The story is of a "white trash" boy who grew up moving around Texas with a dead-beat dad, and an under-protective mother. The plot goes through many twists and turns as the main character (a boy of 8 or so and ending in adulthood)experiences hard times at an early age. This book takes you through the pains of a boy who is abused, through the embarrassment of puberty, though the sadness of losing innocence, and through the hardships of sibling relationships and death.I have read and loved stories such as Their Eyes were Watching God, the Awakening, Snow Falling on Cedars, etc., and I find Hardscrub to be a piece of literary art along those same lines. The reasons I find Hardscrub to be just as good, if not better, are that the plot is amazing, the characters are fully developed, and even though Garcia is not white, he portrays the hardships of a "white trash" family very well.I loved this book, and I am sure you will too. It gave me a completely new understanding of those with less money and opportunities than myself and was entertaining at the same time.