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Simon & Schuster
June 2014
On Sale: June 3, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 1439170878
EAN: 9781439170878
Kindle: B00HB62NS8
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this
stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass
Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a
boy’s turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers
and the mother who was determined to give her son everything
but the truth.
When he was three years old, Brando
Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother,
Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for
her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he
started out as one. The life of “Brando Skyhorse,” the
American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist,
was about to begin.
Through a series of letters to
Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a stranger in prison for armed
robbery, Maria reinvents herself and her young son as
American Indians in the colorful Mexican-American
neighborhood of Echo Park, California. There Brando and his
mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast
of surrogate fathers. It will be over thirty years before
Brando begins to untangle the truth of his own past, when a
surprise discovery online leads him to his biological father
at last.
From an acclaimed, prize-winning novelist
celebrated for his “indelible storytelling” (O, The Oprah
Magazine), this extraordinary literary memoir captures a
son’s single-minded search for a father wherever he can find
one, and is destined to become a classic.
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