>>The Silver Cloud Café

ISBN: 0-452-27664-0
343 pp. | paper only | $14.00

Alfredo Véa, Jr.

In the dark waters off San Francisco's Mission District, the corpse of a failed priest surfaces. Another commits suicide nearby, while a prostitute declares that her virginity has been restored. At once a gripping murder mystery and a panoramic novel about the blend of race and culture in the United States, The Silver Cloud Café is a spellbinding book that ranges from the bloody Cristero Wars of the Mexican Revolution through decades of hardship for migrant workers in the U.S. farmlands.