{"product_id":"the-gangster-of-love-isbn-9780140159707","title":"The Gangster of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis elegant and smart, deftly capturing the pain of leaving a country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom celebrated novelist Jessica Hagedorn, an electrifying novel about a Filipino-American family navigating a culture of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the year that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration that finds Rocky moving from the counterculture of 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant 1980s Manhattan music scene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States, all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind. Among its members are Rocky's haughty mother, who has impulsively left her father; Voltaire, her brother, prone to heavy depression and odd friendships with strangers; and Rocky herself, unsure about sex and worshipful of her boyfriend, the guitar-playing Elvis Chang, who must learn to accept reality amidst the myths and lures of American success and idolatry.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Playful, inventive . . . Asks serious questions about family, exile, identity, about the problems of learning to operate in another language.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hagedorn paints a lively portrait that in many ways is impressionistic . . . engrossing, unsentimental, and quite funny.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis more about journeys than destinations, and Hagedorn’s steamy prose makes you happy to be along for the ride.” —\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This novel of Manila-meets-the-underground-American hip is high energy and moves full-speed ahead.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of the most auspicious literary novels about the rock scene since Don DeLillo’s \u003ci\u003eGreat Jones Street\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Engrossing . . . marked by a stunning lyrical elegance.” —\u003ci\u003eSpin \u003c\/i\u003eJessica Hagedorn is the author of the novels \u003cb\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Gangster of Love\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDream Jungle\u003c\/b\u003e, and a collection of poetry and short fiction, \u003cb\u003eDanger and Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304478757093,"sku":"NP9780140159707","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140159707.jpg?v=1767739466","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-gangster-of-love-isbn-9780140159707","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}