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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood

Rigoberto Gonzalez

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#2727 of 3,809 books · #981 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2018).

Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of González men turn to vices or withdraw into depression. As brothers Rigoberto and Alex grow to manhood, they are haunted by the traumas of their mother's early death, their lonely youth, their father's desertion, and their grandfather's invective. Rigoberto's success in escaping--first to college and then by becoming a writer--is blighted by his struggles with alcohol and abusive relationships, while Alex contends with difficult family relations, his own rocky marriage, and fatherhood. Descending into a dark emotional space that compromises their mental and physical health, the brothers eventually find hope in aiding each other.

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ISBN-13
9780299316983
Topics
Family and brotherhoodImmigrant experience and povertyMental health and addiction

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