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The Empanada Brotherhood

A Novel By John Nichols

5-1/2 x 8 in; 256 pp ;
Hardcover
Published in September, 2007
ISBN 0811860523
ISBN13 9780811860529

$22.95  

The Empanada Brotherhood -- It's Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, when ex-patriots, artists, and colorful bums are kings. A tiny stand selling empanadas near the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal streets is the center of the action for the shy narrator, an aspiring writer just out of college. At the stand he falls in with a crowd of kooky outcasts from Argentina who introduce him to their raucous adventures, melodramatic dreams—and women, particularly a tough little flamenco dancer from Buenos Aires. Charming and insightful, this deceptively simple novel is a tale told by a master. It is a wise coming-of-age story, full of joy and touched by heartbreak, that captures a special time and place with extraordinary empathy and humor.

John Nichols is the author of The Milagro Beanfield War and many other works of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novel was The Voice of the Butterfly, published by Chronicle Books in 2001.