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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rigoberto GonzálezSeries:Living Out: Gay and Lesbian AutobiogPublish date:2018-03-13Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299316907ISBN-10:299316904UPC:9780299316907Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, LGBTQ+, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCWPP23B56
Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of Gonz lez 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. Rigoberto's success in escaping--first to college and then by becoming a writer--is blighted by his struggles with alcohol and abusive relationships, while Alex contends with difficult family relations, his own rocky marriage, and fatherhood.

Descending into a dark emotional space that compromises their mental and physical health, the brothers eventually find hope in aiding each other. This is an honest and revealing window into the complexities of Latino masculinity, the private lives of men, and the ways they build strength under the weight of grief, loss, and despair.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299316907ISBN-10:299316904UPC:9780299316907Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, LGBTQ+, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCWPP23B56
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.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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