{"product_id":"eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you-9780872868335","title":"Eat the Mouth That Feeds You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the year's most anticipated books by\u003cem\u003e The Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColorlines \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eRemezcla\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarribean Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the domestic surreal, featuring an unusual gathering of Latinx and Chicanx voices from both sides of the U.S.\/Mexico border, and universes beyond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth that Feeds You\u003c\/em\u003e renders the feminine grotesque at its finest.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Myriam Gurba\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth that Feeds You \u003c\/em\u003ewill establish Fragoza as an essential and important new voice in American fiction.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eH ctor Tobar, \u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eThe Barbarian Nurseries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The writing is sharp and unexpected, and full of vivid turns.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--David Ulin, Books editor, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Alta Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the family's beloved lime tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fragoza's surreal and gothic stories, focused on Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant women's voices, are sure to surprise and move readers.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eZoe Ruiz, \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fragoza's debut collection delivers expertly crafted tales of Latinx people trying to make sense of violent, dark realities. Magical realism and gothic horror make for effective stylistic entryways, as Fragoza seamlessly blurs the lines between the corporeal and the abstract.\"--\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fierce and feminist, \u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth That Feeds You\u003c\/em\u003e is a soul-quaking literary force.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Dontan  McPherson-Joseph, \u003cem\u003eThe Foreword\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The magic realism of \u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth that Feeds You \u003c\/em\u003eis thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories themselves . . . a wonderful debut.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Brian Evenson\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSong for the Unraveling of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fragoza's prose, a switchblade of a magical glow, cauterizes as it cuts. In a setting of barren citrus trees, poison-filled balloons, and stuccos haunted by the menace of the past, \u003cem\u003e Eat the Mouth That Feeds You \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003er\u003c\/strong\u003eeinvents the sunny noir.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Salvador Plascencia, \u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eThe People of Paper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carribean Fragoza goes deep. This book makes central the lives of women, whether sourced locally or rooted in Mexico, whether alive or dead to the world, surrealistic or hyper realistic, in the flesh or as spirits centuries old. This is storytelling that astonishes . . . \"\u003cstrong\u003e--Sesshu Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAtomik Aztex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I felt this collection deep in my bones. Like the Chicanx women whose voices she centers, Carribean Fragoza's writing doesn't flinch. It is sharp and dream-like, tender-hearted and brutal, carved from the violence and resilience of generations past and present.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Natalia Sylvester\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eEveryone Knows You Go Home \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872868335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144","brand":"Carribean Fragoza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38607616573621,"sku":"9780872868335","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5103d8a7-9113-4353-b796-a7fc7f4de373.jpg?v=1614089670","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you-9780872868335","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}