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Book SynopsisIn the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto González looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body - all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
Trade ReviewThe author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body- all are explored in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
""An unforgettable portrait of the artist as a young immigrant gay poet. These brief, passionate chapters are filled with rare courage, raw honesty, and the uncommon beauty of a life spent yearning for consolation and hope. Absolutely arresting.""- Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire
""A haunting book, whose many senses linger long after reading it.""- Mary Cappello, author of Awkward: A Detour
""The compelling story of a life that routinely- necessarily- crosses borders of ethnic, socioeconomic, and sexual identities.""- Pablo Miguel Martínez, author of Brazos, Carry Me
""Immigrant and gay readers may experience release in the book's agonizing familiarity; all readers will find it lusciously evocative.""- Publishers Weekly
Table of Contents
- acknowledgments
- allegory
- I. Leaving the Motherland, Mother Leaving Me
- duty
- piedrita
- potato
- zacapu
- piedrita
- jugete
- trash
- lift
- witch
- piedrita
- fire
- x-mas
- crayon
- note i
- crooked
- piedrita
- biology
- wicked
- dream
- piedrita
- glove
- migra
- II. Unsettled Independence
- invisible
- piedrita
- tongue
- insomnia
- note ii
- nightshift
- x\u00f3chitl
- piedrita
- voice
- reprimand
- martini
- III. In Search of Paradise
- station
- piedrita
- kill
- outcast
- eye
- kite
- clown
- piedrita
- tether
- papi
- godiva
- piedrita
- IV. Body Cravings
- love
- empty
- piedrita
- sketch
- rain
- chi
- piedrita
- ghosts
- pseudonym
- piedrita
- questions
- note iii
- piedrita
- haughty
- extraction
- bleed
- voracious
- piedrita
- forest
