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Helena Maria Viramontes brings 1960s Los Angeles to life with ';terse, energetic, and vivid' (Publishers Weekly) prose in this story of a group of young Latinx women fighting to survive and thrive in a tumultuous world.Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Mara Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the barrio of East Los Angeles, a group of unbreakable young women struggle to find their way through the turbulent urban landscape of the 1960s. Androgynous Turtle is a homeless gang member. Ana devotes herself to a mentally ill brother. Ermila is a teenager poised between childhood and political consciousness. And Tranquilina, the daughter of missionaries, finds hope in faith. In prose that is potent and street tough, Viramontes has choreographed a tragic dance of death and rebirth. Julia Alvarez has called Viramontes "e;one of the important multicultural voices of American literature."e; Their Dogs Came with Them further proves the depth and talent of this essential author.