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Butterfly Boy
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- Book Synopsis
- Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González also faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo.
- About The Author
- Rigoberto Gonzalez is the author of many award-winning books for adults and children, among them So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a selection of the National Poetry Series; the novel Crossing Vines, named the ForeWord Fiction Book of the Year; and the teen novel The Mariposa Club, named to the American Library Association's Rainbow List. He is a contributing editor to the magazine Poets and Writers, on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and on the advisory circle of Con Tinta, a coalition of Chicano/Latino activist writers. He is associate professor of English at Rutgers University at Newark.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780299219048
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Press, (01 September 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 333 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 228 x 152 x 15 mm
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