Quixote Cult, The

The late 1960s was a heady time to come to adulthood, even in deep South Texas. When the narrator of The Quixote Cult—known simply as De la O—begins college, he discovers a world of political activists, Vietnam veterans, small-time drug dealers, and academic opportunists unlike anything he and his friend Lucio ever experienced in the barrio. And the more he sees of the fighting between La Raza revolutionaries, union members, political bosses, and paramilitary protesters, the more De la O wo...