Showing Buried Onions by Gary Soto

Paperback. Pub Date: December 2006 Pages: 176 in Publisher: Graphia For Eddie there is not much to do in his rundown from neighborhood but eat the sleep watch out for drive-bys and just try to get through each day. The His father. two uncles. and his best friend are all dead. and it's a struggle not to end up the same way. The violence makes Fresno wallow in tears. as if a huge onion with its ubiquitous vapors were buried beneath the city. Making an effort to walk a straight line despite constant temptations and frustrations. Eddie searches for answers after the death of his cousin and discovers that his closest friends may be his worst enemies. When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college. he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno. California.