Calle 10
Danny Romero
fiction
$12.95, 160 pages
ISBN
978-1562790905
Calle 10
is the rich and beautifully rendered story of Zero, a young Chicano living on Tenth Street — Calle 10 — amidst the poverty and violence of Ciudad Jimenez, under the dark cloud of an oil refinery across the bay from San Francisco. This tough, gritty novel uncompromisingly brings us into the street violence, economic despair, and drug-induced stupors of Zero’s world, but the intelligence, honesty, humor, and compassion in Romero’s voice also convey Zero’s strength and wisdom.