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. Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment 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.

Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Publishing Triangle

"Told in a series of revealing vignettes and poems, Gonz?lez's Autobiography of my Hungers turns moments of need and want into revelations of truth and self-awareness, creating the portrait of an artist that is complex if not entirely complete."--El Paso Times

"Through his provocative vignettes, Gonz?lez communicates a lifetime of struggle for affirmation and self-acceptance."--Make/Shift

• 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"