Lawn Boy

Description:

"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--

subjects: Social conditions,  American Dream,  Mexican Americans,  Working class,  Fiction,  Mexican americans, fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  collectionID:TexChallenge2021,  collectionID:AlpineChallenge,  collectionID:ConroeChallenge,  Social aspects,  Bildungsromans,  FICTION / Coming of Age,  FICTION / Humorous / General,  FICTION / Family Life / General,  LGBTQ novels