{"product_id":"the-gangster-of-love-paperback","title":"The Gangster of Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Hagedorn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis elegant and smart, deftly capturing the pain of leaving a country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom celebrated novelist Jessica Hagedorn, an electrifying novel about a Filipino-American family navigating a culture of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the year that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration that finds Rocky moving from the counterculture of 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant 1980s Manhattan music scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gangster of Love\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States, all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind. Among its members are Rocky's haughty mother, who has impulsively left her father; Voltaire, her brother, prone to heavy depression and odd friendships with strangers; and Rocky herself, unsure about sex and worshipful of her boyfriend, the guitar-playing Elvis Chang, who must learn to accept reality amidst the myths and lures of American success and idolatry.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Hagedorn is the author of the novels \u003cb\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Gangster of Love\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDream Jungle\u003c\/b\u003e, and a collection of poetry and short fiction, \u003cb\u003eDanger and Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.77 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44330206789734,"sku":"9780140159707","price":31.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NWqCDMsiR79780140159707.webp?v=1768355487","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-gangster-of-love-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}