Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

Don’t let this slim volume in verse fool you. This intriguing, multi-voiced look at a violent chapter of Los Angeles history will catapult you back to 1943. The reader follows the Mexican American voices of the girls who work for the war effort while managing to find happiness in jazz, along with their brothers overseas and at home, and also documents the sailors who took part in the brutality of the Zoot Suit Riots.