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    Buried Onions
    Buried Onions
    Buried Onions
    Audiobook4 hours

    Buried Onions

    Written by Gary Soto

    Narrated by Robert Ramirez

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    You can pray and sometimes God listens, says 19-year-old Eddie. "Other times he's far away in India or Africa or maybe close to home in Fresno, his body sprawled on the floor, glass all around because of a drive-by." All Eddie wants is to find a way out of the dangerous life he's living, where his friends are lost in a world of drugs and violence. Even his aunt wants to give him a gun so he can avenge the death of her son. But no matter how hard he works, Eddie can't seem to pull himself away from the sweltering sadness of the city. It's as if giant onions had been buried beneath him, Eddie thinks, releasing shimmering vapors off the black asphalt all around. Gary Soto, the award-winning author of Jesse, presents a tough, relentless look at a life spiraling out of control. Narrator Robert Ramirez voices all the grim failure of the American dream.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 16, 2008
    ISBN9781440782138
    Buried Onions
    Author

    Gary Soto

    Gary Soto is a National Book Award finalist and a recipient of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, the Tomás Rivera Book Award, the NEA Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award, the California Library Association’s Beatty Award, and the PEN Center West Book Award. He lives in Northern California.

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    • 5/5
      Beautiful prose almost poetic. Well developed characters and a photography of a reality for many chicanos. Wanting to get out, but not having options to do so.
    • 3/5
      This is a story about a boy named eddie who lives in fresno. He lives in a hard part of town where everyone cries since things are so hard. He says that is because onions are buried underneath the city. He has to overcome gang, violence, and poverty during his journey.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the way the author wrote this book. Soto has more poetic imagery than other books I've read recently. The young man seemed like a good guy who was kind of trapped in bad circumstances. This book made me feel a little trapped also. I would use this book in a classroom for high school students in the hopes that this story would make them want to go to college and finish.
    • 1/5
      really bad book too many words on one page
    • 3/5
      Eddie lives in a hopeless sad town of Fresno. Eddies uses many metaphors about onions being buried under the city which is why people cry so much. Eddie tries to escape from the poverty and gang society that surrounds him by taking vocational classes and staying away from his old gang friends. But when his cousin is killed, his aunt urges him to seek out and punish the murderer. To get away from it all he takes a landscaping job in the suburbs. But this too goes awry when his boss's truck is stolen while in his care. In the end, with his money gone and a dangerous gang member stalking him, Eddie's only choice is to join the military and hope that they can give him a better future than the one Fresno seems to offer.
    • 5/5
      this book is about a boy name eddie that was from el barrio he works on painting curbs and planting trees he made 30 dollars a day he drop out of city college and he eats ramen jello and raisins.eddie had alot of family members that were murdered it was his cousin and his aunt and uncle so then heFor Eddie there isn’t much to do in his rundown neighborhood but eat, sleep, watch out for drive-bys, and just try to get through each day. His father, two uncles, and his best friend are all dead, and it’s a struggle not to end up the same way. The violence makes Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion with its ubiquitous vapors were buried beneath the city. Making an effort to walk a straight line despite constant temptations and frustrations, Eddie searches for answers after the death of his cousin and discovers that his closest friends may be his worst enemiesEddie tries to escape from the poverty and gang society that surrounds him by taking vocational classes and staying away from his old "cholos," (gang friends). But when his cousin is killed, his aunt urges him to seek out and punish the murderer. To avoid the pressure building in his neighborhood, Eddie takes a landscaping job in an affluent suburb.