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The Blums also used nonderivative detailing - odd floral and shell patterns, berries, octagons, hexagons and other unorthodox forms.
Those characteristics notwithstanding it is also important because it was one of four novels published in the last third of the twentieth century which gained academic respect for Chicano literature as an important and nonderivative type of American literature.