- SKU: 9781951979539
- BARCODE: 9781951979539
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Ruin & Want - Paperback
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Description
by José Angel Araguz (Author)
Is selfhood constructed? And if so, by whom? Exploring queerness, race, body image, and family, Ruin & Want is a masterful meditation on otherness and identity. In a series of gripping, episodic prose pieces centered on an illicit relationship between a student and his high school English teacher, Araguz peels back the layers of his marginalized identity. By reflecting on his childhood into adulthood, Araguz grapples with finding a sense of self when early, predatory experiences have deeply affected his coming-of-age. In quixotic, deeply eviscerating lyric prose, Araguz delivers a troubling but bold memoir that handles this topic with courage while grieving what it costs survivors to reckon with harm's aftermath. Yet in the midst of this struggle, we find many bittersweet and lingering gifts such as, "For the first time I saw myself as someone worth seeing," that make this work necessary and unforgettable.
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