← Jose Antonio VillarrealClemente Chacónby Jose Antonio VillarrealNovel exploring Mexican American life and cultural identity in the twentieth centuryFind on Amazon↗About the authorJose Antonio VillarrealJose Antonio Villarreal wrote Pocho, the first Chicano novel to be published by a major American press. Its autobiographical account of a Mexican immigrant family's assimilation in California established the template for Chicano fiction.More by Jose Antonio VillarrealPochoNovel following a Mexican American family's struggle for assimilation in California→The Fifth HorsemanNovel about the Mexican Revolution and its impact on a family's destiny→