Keystone Books: The New Face of Small-Town America : Snapshots of Latino Life in Allentown, Pennsylvania (Hardcover)

from sarradee

This is a collection of essays adapted from a newspaper column that was published in the Allentown Daily Call newspaper by a Mexican journalist who was hired because he was Hispanic, rather than because he had any knowledge of Caribbean Latinos, in particular those from Puerto Rico. The essays ar...

from shsb

The "snapshots" in this book were originally written for the newspaper, and have now been combined into a collective book. The stories are short, easy reads, which I liked. The book information on the dust jacket basically states that the purpose of these essays is to show that Latinos are just l...

from jcarpentercc

An interesting and timely topic with all of the recent coverage on immigration, but the writing is a bit stilted. The chapters don't flow very well in book form - each essay works better on its own. After reading the book, I felt that Americans should be proud that people from other countries wan...

from arelenriel

This book was an excellent read. Sandoval gives the reader an eloquent description of the changing face of small town life in the United States and the changing ideal of the American dream. In the pages of this book we see the Latino population from the eyes of long-term Latino residents of the U...

from richardderus

The Book Report: A series of newspaper columns written by a Mexican man hired to cover the largely Caribbean Latino population of the Lehigh Valley, this book offers a charming, if choppy and repetitious, insight into the new majority of American cities, the Latinos. Sandoval was hired by the (An...