WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARDPEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTRecommended by Heacutector Tobar as an essential Los Angeles book in the New York Times.Carribean Fragozas 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."Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is an accomplished debut with language that has the potential to affect the reader on a visceral level, a rare and significant achievement from a forceful new voice in American literature."Kali FajardoAnstine, New York Times Book Review, and author of Sabrina and CorinaCarribean Fragozas 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 grandmas 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 familys beloved lime tree.Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and womens wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the...

Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: City Lights Publishers; Classification: FA; Weight: 298 g; Dimensions: 134 x 202 x 13

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