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The Boy Kings of Texas

Domingo Martinez

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#2416 of 3,809 books · #876 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012).

The Boy Kings of Texas won the National Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller. A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.

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Publisher
Lyons Press
ISBN-13
9780762779192
Topics
Border life and immigrationFamily and identityGrowing up Mexican-American

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