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LC: 2012032924 PS
64 PP. 5 X 8
E-BOOK $12.95 ISBN 978-0-299-29253-9
Living Out: Gay and
Lesbian Autobiographies
David Bergman, Joan Larkin, and
Raphael Kadushin, Series Editors
“A haunting book, whose many
senses linger long after reading it.”
Mary Cappello, author of
Awkward:
A Detour
MEMOIR / GAY & LESBIAN INTEREST / LATINO INTEREST
“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
Rigoberto González, 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 emo-
tional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another
lover, a different body—all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking
and poetic vignettes.
Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an
important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourish-
ment that comes in various forms—even “the smallest biggest joys” help piece
together a complex portrait of a gay man of color who at last defines himself by
what he learns, not by what he yearns for.
Rigoberto González
is the author of thirteen
books of poetry and prose and the editor of
Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino
Writing
. His memoir
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a
Chicano Mariposa
won the American Book Award,
and he has received fellowships from the Guggen-
heim Foundation and the National Endowment
for the Arts. He is a contributing editor for
Poets
& Writers Magazine
, serves on the executive board
of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and is an associate professor of
English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
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Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical
Voices of U.S. Latinos/as
O f r e l a t e d i n t e r e s t
“In the tradition of Richard Rodriguez, this
stirring memoir of a first-generation Mexi-
can American’s coming-of-age and coming
out is wrenching, angry, passionate, ironic,
and always eloquent about conflicts of fam-
ily, class and sexuality. . . . An unforgettable
story of leaving home today.”—Hazel Roch-
man,
Booklist
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