The Flowers

Living with his mother in a racially divided city, fifteen-year-old Sonny Bravo finds his life uprooted when his mother marries Okie building contractor Cloyd Longpre and moves them into a small apartment building, Los Flores, where he becomes embroiled in the lives of his neighbors, including Cindy, a teenage drug addict, and Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl. Reprint.