The divergent paths of two girls in the Chicano gang world of Los Angeles. Cecilia is the sister of a gang leader and Lucia is his girlfriend. The girlfriend uses the connection to form a gang of her own, while the sister decides she has not the stomach for robbing old women, and gives up crime to become a cleaning woman. A first novel.
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