Amigoland

a novel

English language

Published 2009 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:
978-0-316-15969-2
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OCLC Number:
264027063

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In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they have let a family argument stand between them for too long. Don Celestino's good-natured housekeeper encourages him to make amends--while he still can. They secretly liberate Don Fidencio from his nursing home and travel into Mexico to solve the mystery at the heart of their dispute: the family legend of their grandfather's kidnapping. As the unlikely trio travels, the brothers learn it's never too late for a new beginning.With winsome prose and heartfelt humor, Oscar Casares's debut novel of family lost and found radiates with generosity and grace and confirms the arrival of a uniquely talented new writer.

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Subjects

  • Older men -- Fiction
  • Brothers -- Fiction
  • Mexican Americans -- Fiction
  • Nursing home patients -- Fiction
  • Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
  • Voyages and travels -- Fiction
  • Brownsville (Tex.) -- Fiction
  • Mexico -- Fiction