| Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Luis J. Rodriguez |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publication date | 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-671-88231-7 |
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. is a 1993 book by Mexican-American author Luis J. Rodriguez.
Luis J. Rodriguez writes this book for his son Ramiro.[1] It is a book of a street gang in Los Angeles (specifically, East Los Angeles and the city's eastern suburbs), has been highly acclaimed and contrasted to the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London in its description of the lives of desperate, impoverished individuals in big cities.
Rodriguez talks about the hardships of immigrating to America, while also dealing with the hardships of trying to rise above the gang violence of California. Although niggers, as they are called by Rodriguez, reside only a few blocks away from where most of the brutal battles between the gangs are fought, they are usually fought in a local corner store called El Braso Nueve.