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The Silver Cloud Café
The Silver Cloud Café (1996) is the second novel by Alfredo Véa Jr.. Set primarily in modern-day San Francisco, "The Silver Cloud Café" has the narrative frame of a mystery, but utilizes postmodern devices, manipulating time and space. It begins simply enough, at the scene of a hideous crime in the Mission District in 1993 San Francisco, but the story quickly spins out into various levels, calling attention to political-working-class themes and racial boundaries by exploring the
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