Carribean Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the
domestic surreal, featuring an unusual gathering of Latinx and
Chicanx voices from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, and
universes beyond. Carribean Fragoza's imperfect characters are
drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against
circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman
returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left
off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother
reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by
her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters
has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and
sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to
their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally
she attacks the family's beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated
from the rubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is
brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to
unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border. "Eat the Mouth That
Feeds You is an accomplished debut with language that has the
potential to affect the reader on a visceral level, a rare and
significant achievement from a forceful new voice in American
literature."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, New York Times Book Review, and
author of Sabrina and Corina "Eat the Mouth that Feeds You renders
the feminine grotesque at its finest."-Myriam Gurba, author of Mean
"Eat the Mouth that Feeds You will establish Fragoza as an
essential and important new voice in American fiction."-Hector
Tobar, author of The Barbarian Nurseries "Fierce and feminist, Eat
the Mouth That Feeds You is a soul-quaking literary force."-Dontana
McPherson-Joseph, The Foreword, *Starred Review ". . . a work of
power and a darkly brilliant talisman that enlarges in necessary
ways the feminist, Latinx, and Chicanx canons."-Wendy Ortiz, Alta
Magazine "Fragoza's surreal and gothic stories, focused on Latinx,
Chicanx, and immigrant women's voices, are sure to surprise and
move readers."-Zoe Ruiz, The Millions "This collection of visceral,
often bone-chilling stories centers the liminal world of Latinos in
Southern California while fraying reality at its edges. Full of
horror and wonder."-Kirkus Reviews, *Starred Review "Fragoza's
debut collection delivers expertly crafted tales of Latinx people
trying to make sense of violent, dark realities. Magical realism
and gothic horror make for effective stylistic entryways, as
Fragoza seamlessly blurs the lines between the corporeal and the
abstract."-Publishers Weekly "The magic realism of Eat the Mouth
that Feeds You is thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories
themselves . . . a wonderful debut."-Brian Evenson, author of Song
for the Unraveling of the World
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