Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
Margarita Engle
Told in verse, this novel recounts the events surrounding the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots through Ray and his sisters Marisela and Lorena, a Mexican American family in Los Angeles. As U.S. sailors attack young Mexican Americans wearing zoot suits, police pursue the victims and the media assigns blame. The siblings’ lives also include dancing, school, wartime family separation, and questions of identity.
This book appears on 4 reading lists across 1 edition from 4 organizations.
