Book DetailsCountry: USA
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Houghton Miffin
Publication Date: 1996
Fictional Artist: The Gangsters of Love
Genre: Rock
Country: USA
Real World Analogue: Sly and the Family Stone, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton and Parliament, Funkadelic, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts are all mentioned as influences on the Gangsters of Love. Author Hagedorn spent a number of years playing in a band called The Gangster Choir.
Jacket Blurb:
Rocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the day that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration which finds Rocky moving from the counter-culture in 1960's San Francisco to the extravagant music scene in Manhattan of the 1980s.
The Gangster of Love tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States, all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind. Among its members are Rocky's haughty mother, who has impulsively left her father; Voltaire, her brother, prone to heavy depression and odd friendships with strangers; and Rocky herself, unsure about sex and worshipful of her boyfriend, the guitar-playing Elvis Chang, who must learn to accept reality amidst the myths and lures of American success and idolatry.
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