In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Oscar Balboa and Valentin Rodriguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two ?strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad? are the novel?s principal voices as they lie dying. - See more at: http://artepublicopress.uh.edu/arte-publico-wp/product/muerte-en-una-estrella-shooting-star/#sthash.gT2quQIB.dpuf...