Parrot in the oven

Description:

Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Alcoholism,  Mexican Americans,  Family,  Family life,  Coming of age,  Families,  Mexican American families,  Bildungsromans,  Alcoholics,  Family relationships,  Children of alcoholics,  Children's fiction,  Parrots, fiction,  Adolescence, fiction,  Alcoholism, fiction,  Boys, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Parent and child,  Mexican americans, fiction