Baca, Jimmy Santiago: Working in the Dark (HB)

Museum of New Mexico Press, hardcover Publication Date: January 1, 2008 Publisher Marketing: A Lakota Sioux writer details in fictional form the impact of the gun, introduced in 1750, on his people's culture. Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, his role as a witness for the misunderstood tribal life of the barrio, and his redemptive vocation as a poet.