Autobiography of My Hungers (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

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Rigoberto González, creator of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing take a 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 bigger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
            Each and every vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, each and every moment a very powerful step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment that comes in quite a lot of forms—even “the smallest biggest joys” lend a hand 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, González’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 may be complex if not entirely complete.”—El Paso Times

“Through his provocative vignettes, González communicates an entire life of struggle for affirmation and self-acceptance.”—Make/Shift 

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