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Reymundo Sanchez

This is the pen name of the main character, a member of the feared Latin Kings gang in Chicago.

Reymundo's Mother

She was only sixteen when she married a seventy-four-year-old man.

Morena

She was an older teen girl who was Reymundo's best friend in the gang.

Loca

After Morena's death, Reymundo lived for a time with this girl and her two young sons.

Jenny

She was Reymundo's girlfriend from the time he was thirteen to fifteen years old.

Cindy

She was determined to get a college education and end her family's cycle of poverty.

Julio

He was Reymundo's friend at Von Humboldt School, during the idyllic first year in Humboldt Park.

Papo

He was one of the first Latin Kings that Reymundo met, a boy a year older who became his partner in many crimes.

Pedro

He was married to Reymundo's mother, her third husband best...

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