{"product_id":"9781518503023","title":"Quixote Cult, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe late 1960s was a heady time to come to adulthood, even in deep South Texas. When the narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Quixote Cult\u003c\/i\u003e—known simply as De la O—begins college, he discovers a world of political activists, Vietnam veterans, small-time drug dealers, and academic opportunists unlike anything he and his friend Lucio ever experienced in the barrio. And the more he sees of the fighting between \u003ci\u003eLa Raza\u003c\/i\u003e revolutionaries, union members, political bosses, and paramilitary protesters, the more De la O wonders if the preaching of Chicano brotherhood isn’t simply the flowering of another crackpot cult. But as he encounters day-care radicals, tilts at institutional windmills, and learns about St. Che and other icons, De la O also meets such living wonders as the Jewish Aztec Princess and The Brown Barbie. \u003ci\u003eThe Quixote Cult\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Genaro González’s reputation as a rambunctious, quirky writer whose characters, as The Nation wrote, “combust into their own living, full-colored reality”—even as they take on such important hippie-era questions as “You guys do bathe, don’t you?” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arte Publico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157096546544,"sku":"9781518503023","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781518503023_p0.jpg?v=1763728392","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781518503023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}