Autobiography of My Hungers

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

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 05/06/2013
ISBN: 9780299292508
Pages: 113
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2013
Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 106
Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 48