Monkey Boy
Francisco Goldman
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50
· 10 ratings · 336 pages · Published: 04 May 2021
In Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman's "brilliantly constructed auto-fiction" (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up as the son of immigrants--a Guatemalan Catholic mother and a Russian Jewish father--in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb. Told in an irresistibly funny, tender and passionate voice, this extraordinary portrait of family explores the pressures of living between worlds.
"A family portrait that is funny, loving and fierce, all at the same time."--NPR
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