The Chicken Hanger

by Ben Rehder

Book Overview

Ricky Delgado works as a chicken hanger at the poultry plant in Rugoso, Texas, a small border town just thirty miles south of Laredo. His quiet, illegal lifestyle is disrupted when he learns that his brother Tom s has been shot and injured shortly after crossing the border. Together, Ricky and Tom s must make a decision: to risk their illegal status and seek justice, or remain silent and endure the injustices common to all "wetbacks" within the states...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875654363
• ISBN13: 9780875654362
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"