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Helena Maria Viramontes

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Michael Silverblatt

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Their Dogs Came with Them (Atria)
Helena Maria Viramontes has written about L.A.-based Latino culture before -- but who could have expected this epic work about a neighborhood that is divided by a freeway, cut off and lost in Los Angeles. Viramontes explores the explosive insights that gave her the ability to grow as a novelist.

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Helena Maria Viramontes: Poet, novelist and short story writer

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