{"product_id":"notebooks-of-a-chile-verde-juan-felipe-herrera-9780816522156","title":"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler","description":"Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal entries, and even a screenplay, Zen Chicano desperado Juan Felipe Herrera fixes his gaze on his own life and times to craft his most personal work to date. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler\u003c\/i\u003e is a river of faces and phrases, jottings and reflections--a personal pilgrimage and collective parade of love, mock-prophecy, and chiste. Tuning in voices from numerous time zones, languages, and minds, Herrera recalls his childhood and coming of age, his participation in the Chicano Movement, and the surreal aspects of postmodern America. He uses broad strokes to paint a historical, social, and familial portrait that moves from the twilight of the nineteenth century to the dawn of the twenty-first, then takes up a finer brush to etch the eternal tension between desire and frustration, hope and disillusionment, violence and tenderness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here are transamerican sutras spanning metrocenters from Mexico City to San Francisco, or slinking across the border from Juárez to El Paso. Outrageous, rhythmic lists--\"Foodstuffs They Never Told Us About,\" \"Things Religion Makes Me Do\"--that fire the imagination. Celebrations of his Plutomobile that \"runs on ham hawks \u0026amp; bird grease,\" and of Chicano inventions such as cilantro aftershave and \"the art of eating Vicks VapoRub with your dedos.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pushing forms to the edge of possibility while forcing readers to rethink reality as well as language, Herrera invokes childhoods and neighborhoods, stand-up clowns and Movimiento gypsies, grandmothers of the buñuelo kitchen and tragicomic soliloquies of dizzy-headed outcasts of paradise. \u003ci\u003eNotebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucible of flavorful language meant to be rolled lazily on the mind's tongue--and then swallowed whole to let its hot and savory sweetness fill your soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Felipe Herrera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816522154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816522156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.16w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/22\/2002 pg. 171\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2002 pg. 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2003 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2003 pg. 76 - Strongly Recommended\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/12\/2002","brand":"Juan Felipe Herrera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906604978431,"sku":"9780816522156","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_449e8a8e-f6c1-4303-b69f-a7a7b69f80f3.jpg?v=1748770895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/notebooks-of-a-chile-verde-juan-felipe-herrera-9780816522156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}