Ernesto Quiñonez

Chango's Fire (2005)

Bodega Dreams (2000)

I don’t know what I expected from Bodega Dreams, but clearly what I got wasn’t it. It is an uneven novel. It has some strong insights into life in el barrio and its various tensions and contradictions, but at the same time Quiñonez’s writing doesn’t quite seem up to delivering it consistently. T...