{"product_id":"eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you","title":"Eat the Mouth That Feeds You","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the year's most anticipated books by\u003cem\u003e The Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColorlines \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eRemezcla, \u003c\/em\u003e and recommended by the \u003cem\u003eA.V. Club\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarribean 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth That Feeds You\u003c\/em\u003e is an accomplished debut with language that has the potential to affect the reader on a visceral level, \u003cstrong\u003ea rare and significant achievement from a forceful new voice in American literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Kali Fajardo-Anstine, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and author of \u003cem\u003eSabrina and Corina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn visceral, embodied prose, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictories 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth that Feeds You\u003c\/em\u003e renders the feminine grotesque at its finest.\u003cstrong\u003e--Myriam Gurba\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth that Feeds You \u003c\/em\u003ewill establish Fragoza as an essential and important new voice in American fiction.--\u003cstrong\u003eH ctor Tobar, \u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eThe Barbarian Nurseries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFierce and feminist, \u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth That Feeds You\u003c\/em\u003e is a soul-quaking literary force.\u003cstrong\u003e--Dontan  McPherson-Joseph, \u003cem\u003eThe Foreword, *Starred Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . a work of power and a darkly brilliant talisman that enlarges in necessary ways the feminist, Latinx, and Chicanx canons.--Wendy Ortiz, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Alta Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFragoza's surreal and gothic stories, focused on Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant women's voices, are sure to surprise and move readers.--\u003cstrong\u003eZoe Ruiz, \u003cem\u003eThe Mil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39326119362660,"sku":"9780872868335","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}