NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Lyrical
and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town
family in Brownsville, Texas, insightfully illuminates a
little-understood corner of America. Domingo Martinez lays bare his
interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the
violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving, in a
Texas border town in the 1980s. Partly a reflection on the culture
of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent
in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the
enduring, complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed but
fiercely protective older brother, Daniel. It features a cast of
memorable characters, including his gun-hoarding former farmhand,
Gramma, and "the Mimis"- two of his older sisters who for a short,
glorious time manage to transform themselves from poor Latina
adolescents into upper-class white girls. Martinez provides a
glimpse into a society where children are traded like commerce,
physical altercations routinely solve problems, drugs are rampant,
sex is often crude, and people depend on the family witch doctor
for advice. Charming, painful, and enlightening, this book examines
the traumas and pleasures of growing up in South Texas and the
often terrible consequences when different cultures collide on the
banks of a dying river.
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