Zoot Suit: A Bilingual Edition
- ISBN-10
- 1611923409
- ISBN-13
- 9781611923407
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- Spanish
- Published
- 2004-11-30
- Publisher
- Arte Publico Press
- Author
- Luis Valdez
Description
A group of Mexican-Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the actual case and zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles.
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