Gods Go Begging
by Jane Haddem

List Price: $24.95
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 052594513X
Publisher: Riverhead Books

A practicing criminal defense attorney and the author of two previous novels, La Maravilla and The Silver Cloud Café (both available in Plume editions), Alfredo Véa was born in Arizona and lived the life of a migrant worker before being sent to Vietnam. After his discharge, he worked a series of jobs-from truck driver to carnival mechanic-as he put himself through law school. Gods Go Begging was also the winner of the 1999 Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction. Véa lives in San Francisco.

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