And I'll Take Out Your Eyes: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- "An insultingly good debut" following a queer Chicano&’s cannon-shot into adulthood amidst familial turmoil and the suffocating violence of Stockton, California in the early 2000s (Ruth Madievsky).Cría cuervos y te sacaran los ojos: Raise crows and they&’ll take out your eyes. Since the age of seven, Christian has been under the thumb of a curse. He reads its dark signs everywhere: in his bedridden mother&’s wilting plants; in his brother&’s estrangement; in his father&’s eager fists and glassy stare. He reads it in his nightmares, in Stockton&’s soundtrack of sirens and gunshot. Above all, he reads the curse in the mirror, watching himself &“turn&” into the crow his father always predicted he&’d become. Maddened by the city&’s heatwaves and his own unthinkable desires, often high and drunk, Christian rips through his neighborhood, desperate to escape not only the city but the monster of his pain. But even when he leaves, the curse follows. Can Christian ever be absolved? Or is he condemned to be consumed by the same violence as his father? And I&’ll Take Out Your Eyes is a defiant, shattering portrait of self-discovery in the face of violence, mental illness, and other dark inheritances. In a lyric, circuit-bending onslaught of ragers and laments, A. M. Sosa delivers a redemptive story—and an unforgettable debut.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781643756936
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781643756912
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company
- Date of Addition:
- 10/07/25
- Copyrighted By:
- A. M. Sosa
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.