cover image Riding Low on the Streets of Gold: Latino Literature for Young Adults

Riding Low on the Streets of Gold: Latino Literature for Young Adults

. Arte Publico Press, $14.95 (198pp) ISBN 978-1-55885-380-5

Riding Low on the Streets of Gold, edited by Judith Ortiz Cofer, gathers stories and poems from contemporary Hispanic literature. The themes run from the magical-such as ""The Fabulous Sinkhole"" by Jesus Salvador Trevi o, in which life in a small border town is changed by the mysterious appearance of a hole in a resident's yard that yields gifts-to the realistically human-as with ""Carrying Sergei"" by Mike Padilla in which a 14-year-old girl impulsively harms a classmate, then attempts to set things right.