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...switches voices and perspectives--sometimes it is told from Milagros' point of view, sometimes through the voices of other side characters--for the most part the book focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds a rock band with him named the Gangster of Love, and carries on a years-long flirtatious friendship with a bisexual painter-photographer named Keiko...
...novel gets some of its energy and power through the contrast and conflict between Rocky's Filipino heritage, personified by her domineering mother, and her adopted American bohemian culture, championed by bandmate-lover Elvis Chang. "My mother once confessed how much sex revolted her," Rocky says, shortly after sleeping with Elvis. "'Romance is what I crave,' she said. 'Sex is for men and animals'...I dreamed about sex, wrote about it, sang about it; I got down and dirty when I talked about it." When Rocky's mother starts up a family business making and delivering Filipino food, Rocky leaves...
...with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky. Though the book switches voices and perspectives, for the most part its focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds a rock band with him named "The Gangster of Love," and carries on a years-long flirtatious friendship with a bisexual painter-photographer named Keiko. Hagedorn?s first novel, "Dogeaters," was widely acclaimed and was nominated for the National Book Award. "The Gangster of Love," says Farley, should...
...While Chang says he completely agrees with the club's current policy of political neutrality, he cautions against political avoidance...
...have to represent all the aspects of our heritage," Chang says. "We can't ignore the political aspects just because it might be inconvenient...