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Author:

Yunque, Edgardo

Title:

No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again / Edgardo Yunqué.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus, and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

797p

Subject:

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Vietnamese Conflict--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Jazz musicians--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Puerto Ricans--Fiction.
Birthfathers--Fiction.
Stepfamilies--Fiction.
Vietnam War--Fiction.
Veterans--Fiction
Father-daughter relationships--Fiction.
Musical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

"A symphonic novel"--Dust jacket.

Summary:

Vidamia, raised by her strict Puerto Rican mother, finds her world expanding in both good and bad directions when she becomes acquainted as a teen with her Irish father, a psychologically scarred Vietnam veteran.

Indexed by:

Publisher's Weekly
Kirkus Starred
Booklist

LCCN:

2003044064

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)