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Autobiography of My Hungers

by Rigoberto González

Univ. of Wisconsin. (Living Out: Gay & Lesbian Autobiographies). 2013. 128p. ISBN 9780299292508. $19.95; ebk. ISBN 9780299292539.

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In his second memoir, award-winning Chicano poet González uses poems and stories to illustrate his life through his hungers—for food, love, new clothes, and his culture. A strikingly unconventional memoir that captures González's sense of isolation as both a gay man and an immigrant. (LJ 6/1/13)

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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