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Title: The Squatter and the Don by Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton, Rosaura Sanchez, Beatrice Pita, Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton, Amparo Ruiz De Burton ISBN: 1-55885-055-4 Publisher: Arte Publico Pr Pub. Date: August, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: The Squatter and the Don, an earnest look at prejudice
Comment: There are surprises in The Squatter and the Don which people in San Diego will miss as no one alive will be able to make the connections between the people Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton satirizes in her novel and their living counterparts. Events in the novel center around the demise of a project to connect San Diego to the East Coast by means of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Equal in importance was the usurpation by squatters with the help of the California state legislature and the judiciary of land that did not belong to them.

The Squatter and the Don is steeped in indignation. The love story is subsidiary to the recital of abuses. It is the glue that keeps the reader interested in seeing how the skullduggery plays out. Supporting players are bad because of circumstances, weakness, and lack of moral principles.

The Squatter and the Don can be seen as a Mexican-American parallel to Ramona , a novel that pillories Anglo-American mistreatment of California Indians.. The author claims her Mexican-American characters have much in common with their Anglo neighbors. They are ambitious, educated, hard working, and aware of new modes of thought . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herbert Spencer and Thomas Carlyle..

As the novel heads toward its conclusion, the author links the plight of Mexican-American rancheros to that of San Diego citizens. Both are affected by the chicanery of despoilers who profit from their misery.

If one can get by some of the romantic syrup and the trite ending, The Squatter and the Don is a novel that touches on human and political corruption and anticipates the bold work of Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser.

Rating: 4
Summary: First narative written in english by Mexican/Californian
Comment: The book is a 19th century romance novel which speaks about more than simply matters of the heart. Ruiz de Burton combines political narrative from the Spano-Californio point of view. Her other book is funnier but a bit scattered. jo

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