- Filipino Americans, Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, general
Alternating between the Philippines and the United States, namely New York and Los Angeles, The Gangster of Love is the story of Rocky Rivera, who plays in a dissolute rock band with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Elvis Chang; Rocky's spirited and deeply traditional mother, Milagros; her troubled and bedeviled brother, Voltaire; her wonderfully eccentric uncle, Marlon; and her best friend, the wildly unpredictable, enigmatic Keiko.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395754122
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