California Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520208360)

The narrator of Skin Deep is David Loya, a second generation Chicano from the East L.A. barrio. With a degree from Harvard Law School he is a rising star in a major New York law firm. He returns to L.A. in response to an urgent request from a Harvard friend to find a missing illegal Mexican named Josefina Juarez. David's search for Juarez takes him deep into the barrio where the mystery of her fate upends his world and forces him to confront long-buried questions about family, love, friendship, and his own identity. Skin Deep is a novel about coming of age in the new America, a place in which races and cultures have not so much melded as collided and in which no identity is secure. Garcia chronicles this new urban landscape with acuity and informed sympathy.

Author: Guy Garcia
ISBN-10: 0520208366
ISBN-13: 9780520208360
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/1997
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.48w x 0.53d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/26/1997 pg. 56