The summer of El Pintor

By Ofelia Dumas Lachtman

Subjects: Single-parent families, Mystery and detective stories, Household Moving, Mexican Americans, Identity, Fiction, Moving, Household

Description: When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.