After finishing reading The Giver, I finished reading Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez. This book is very interesting. It is about Spanish guy named Chino. Chino lives in Spanish Harlem, or as they call El Barrio. Everyone in El Barrio are considered failures, but Chino and his wife Blanca go to college. They're having a baby, so Blanca is trying to get done with college soon, and she keeps pressuring Chino to finish to. The only thing in her way is Sapo, Chino's best friend. They have been friends ever since elementary school, but as they got older, they drifted apart. Now Chino's in Hunter College, and his best friend Sapo is selling drugs. Then one day Sapo comes to Chinos house, and tells him that a man named Willie Bodega wants to see him. Chino didn't know this guy from a hole in the wall, but to him, any friend of Sapo, is a friend of his. That was that, and they were on their way to see this guy named Willie Bodega.
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