The Girls from Humboldt Park: A Novel

Set in 1970s Chicago, a radiant story of personal and political revolution within a tight-knit Puerto Rican community.

Over two thousand miles away from their ancestral island, Rosalinda Acevedo and her friends must adhere to their parents’ traditional expectations for Puerto Rican girls: Do not make eye contact with adults, never talk back, and build a fence so high that the boys can’t climb it. But it’s 1976, and with the United States Bicentennial approaching, radical change is in the air...