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Devil land

Title
  1. Devil land / Desi Moreno-Penson.
Published by
  1. New York : Broadway Books, 2011.
  2. ©2011
Author
  1. Moreno-Penson, Desi.

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Description
  1. 74 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. This creepy drama starts off as a more or less ordinary abduction story. The childless Bronx super Americo and his straitlaced, religious wife, Beatriz, kidnap an eccentric 12-year-old neighbor and imprison her in their building's boiler room. Below the surface antics of Americo's growing lecherousness and Beatriz's punitive religiosity, however, an eerier narrative unfolds. The captive child calls upon her "imaginary" playmate the Grinch and the ancient spirits of the Taíno Amerindians, her Puerto Rican ancestors, to keep her safe and to uncover the couple's many mysteries, like what happeded to their real child.
Subject
  1. Kidnapping > Fiction
  2. Puerto Rican children > Fiction
  3. Kidnapping
  4. Puerto Rican children
Genre/Form
  1. Fiction.
Call number
  1. Sc D 17-205
Author
  1. Moreno-Penson, Desi.
Title
  1. Devil land / Desi Moreno-Penson.
Publisher
  1. New York : Broadway Books, 2011.
Copyright date
  1. ©2011
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local subject
  1. Black author.
ISBN
  1. 0881455148
  2. 9780881455144
Research call number
  1. Sc D 17-205
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