Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing 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 larger world, another lover, a different body all are explored by Gonzalez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes. Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment that comes in various forms even "the smallest biggest joys" help 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, Gonzalez sAutobiography of my Hungersturns moments of need and want into revelations of truth and self-awareness, creating the portrait of an artist that is complex if not entirely complete. El Paso Times
Through his provocative vignettes, Gonzalez communicates a lifetime of struggle for affirmation and self-acceptance. Make/Shift"

Author: Bill Christofferson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/23/2004
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.6lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780299196400

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.9
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 75089 / Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2004 pg. 1115
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 914

About the Author
Bill Christofferson, a former journalist who has worked in local and state government, is a political campaign consultant based in Milwaukee.