Monkey boy: a novel
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Publisher:
Grove Press
Pub. Date:
©2021
Edition:
First edition
Language:
English
Description
"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of 'going home again.' It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations, and his Guatemalan mother, Yolanda, around whom his story orbits like a dark star. Backdropping this five-day trip to his childhood home is the specter of Frank's recently deceased father, Bert, an immigrant from Ukraine who was volcanically tempered, pathologically abusive, yet also at times infuriatingly endearing; as well as the high school bullies who gave him the moniker 'monkey boy.' Told in an intimate, irresistibly funny, and passionate voice, this extraordinary portrait of a family and of growing up a 'halfie,' unearths the hidden cruelties in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb where Francisco came of age and explores the pressures of living betwixt and between worlds all his life. Monkey Boy is a new masterpiece of autobiographical fiction from one of the most important American voices in the last forty years"--
Subjects
Subjects
Autobiographical fiction
Children of immigrants
Children of immigrants -- Fiction
Death
Domestic fiction
Electronic books
Families
Families -- Fiction
Fathers
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
Fiction
Heritage
Heritage -- Fiction
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
Homecoming
Homecoming -- Fiction
Journalists
Journalists -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Racially mixed people
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Fiction
Children of immigrants
Children of immigrants -- Fiction
Death
Domestic fiction
Electronic books
Families
Families -- Fiction
Fathers
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
Fiction
Heritage
Heritage -- Fiction
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
Homecoming
Homecoming -- Fiction
Journalists
Journalists -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Racially mixed people
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9780802157676
9780802157690
9781666105971
9780802157690
9781666105971
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Electronic books
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Fiction
Heritage -- Fiction
Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
Homecoming -- Fiction
Journalists -- Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Fiction
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Domestic fiction
Electronic books
Families -- Fiction
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
Fiction
Heritage -- Fiction
Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
Homecoming -- Fiction
Journalists -- Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Fiction
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Monkey Boy [electronic resource] / Francisco Goldman
Monkey boy : a novel / Francisco Goldman
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Death
Electronic books
Families
Fathers
Heritage
Hispanic Americans
Homecoming
Journalists
Literature
Mothers and sons
Racially mixed people
Death
Electronic books
Families
Fathers
Heritage
Hispanic Americans
Homecoming
Journalists
Literature
Mothers and sons
Racially mixed people
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