What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth - A Memoir of Brotherhood

Informationen zum Autor Rigoberto González is the author of seventeen books of poetry and prose, including the memoirs Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (winner of the American Book Award) and Autobiography of My Hungers . He is a contributing editor for Poets & Writers magazine, serves on the board of trustees of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), and is a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Klappentext A bittersweet chronicle of the complexities of Latino masculinity and the bond between two brothers haunted by traumas of their childhood. Zusammenfassung Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of González men turn to vices or withdraw into depression. As brothers Rigoberto and Alex grow to manhood, they are haunted by the traumas of their mother's early death, their lonely youth, their father's desertion, and their grandfather's invective.

Product details

• Authors: Rigoberto Gonzaalez, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rigoberto González, Rigoberto Gonzßlez
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780299316907
• ISBN: 978-0-299-31690-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Au; Living Out: Gay & Lesbian Autobiographies; Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Au
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies