Autobiography of My Hungers

by Rigoberto González

Book Overview

Rigoberto Gonz?lez, 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 by Gonz?lez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299292509
• ISBN13: 9780299292508
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.1"