mous All over town, is considered a
             masterpiece in immigrant literature. John Kenneth Galbraith said while
             presenting the Rosenthal Award, "Famous All Over Town adds luster to the
             enlarging literary genre of immigrant experience, of social, cultural and
             psychological threshold-crossing.... The durable young narrator spins
             across a multi-colored scene of crime, racial violence and extremes of
             dislocation, seeking and perhaps finding his own space. The exuberant mixes
             with the nerve-wracking; and throughout sly slippages of language enact a
             comedy on the theme of communication." The author narrates Chicano
             experience in the United States from the eyes of a 14 year old boy Chato
             Medina. Chato lives in Los Angeles but that's not the glamorous L
             ...