Title Bang : a novel / by Daniel Pena

Published Houston, Texas : Arte Publico Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (242 pages) Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Flying Mexicans -- The Five Senses of Hurt -- Traitors -- Bad News Friend -- El Atómico -- Night Flight -- Gig -- The Burning Mare -- Rot -- Tread -- The Lottery -- Alma -- Desert Sparrow -- Safehome -- Comfort -- The Endless Fall -- Autodefensa -- Sky Burial -- Acknowledgments Summary "Rafa's first flight, a late-night joy ride with his brother, changes their lives forever when the engine stops and the boys crash land, with "Texas to the right; Mexico to the left." Before the accident, Rafa was a high school track star in Harlingen, Texas, even though he was undocumented like the rest of his family. His mother Araceli spent her time waiting for her husband to return after being deported. His older brother Uli, a former high-school track star turned drop-out, learned to fly a crop duster, spraying pesticide over their home in the citrus grove. After the crash, Uli wakes up bound and gagged, wondering where he is. Rafa comes to in a hospital, praying that it's on the American side of the border. And their mother finds herself waiting for her sons as well as her missing husband. Araceli knows that she has to go back to the country she left behind in order to find her family. In Mexico, each is forced to navigate the complexities of their past and an unknown world of deprivation and violence. Ruthless drug cartels force Uli to fly drugs, threatening to kill his mother. They have photos of her in Matamoros to prove they can enforce the threat. Meanwhile, Rafa returns to his family's home in San Miguel and finds a city virtually abandoned, devastated by battles between soldiers and narcotraficantes. Vividly portraying the impact of international drug smuggling on the average person, Peña's debut novel also probes the loss of talented individuals and the black market machines fed with the people removed and shut out of America. Ultimately, Bang is a riveting tale about ordinary people forced to do dangerous, unimaginable things"-- Provided by publisher Notes Print version record Subject Drug traffic -- Fiction Noncitizens -- Fiction. Illegal immigration -- Fiction Immigrant families -- Fiction Mexicans -- United States -- Fiction Noncitizens. Undocumented Immigrants FICTION -- General. Illegal immigration Drug traffic Noncitizens Immigrant families Mexicans Noncitizens. SUBJECT Mexico -- Fiction Texas -- Fiction Subject Mexico Texas United States Genre/Form Domestic fiction Fiction Domestic fiction. Form Electronic book ISBN 1518504485 9781518504488 9781518504501 1518504507

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