{"product_id":"eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you-9780872868335","title":"Eat the Mouth That Feeds You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecommended by Héctor Tobar as an essential Los Angeles book in the \u003c\/i\u003eNew York Times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarribean\n Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the domestic surreal, \nfeaturing an unusual gathering of Latinx and Chicanx voices from both \nsides 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\u003eCarribean\n Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness \nas they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat\n them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly \nwhere she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A \nmother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed \nby her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters \nhas extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister \nwatch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old \nfurniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the\n family’s beloved lime tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictories are excavated from the \nrubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from \nthe violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the \nUS-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\u003eHéctor Tobar,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eThe Barbarian Nurseries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fierce and feminist, \u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth That Feeds You\u003c\/em\u003e is a soul-quaking literary force.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Dontaná McPherson-Joseph, \u003cem\u003eThe Foreword, *Starred Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\".\n . .  a work of power and a darkly brilliant talisman that enlarges in \nnecessary 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\u003e\"Fragoza's\n surreal and gothic stories, focused on Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant \nwomen's voices, are sure to surprise and move readers.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eZoe Ruiz, \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This\n collection of visceral, often bone-chilling stories centers the liminal\n world of Latinos in Southern California while fraying reality at its \nedges. Full of horror and wonder.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews,\u003c\/em\u003e  *Starred Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fragoza's\n debut collection delivers expertly crafted tales of Latinx people \ntrying to make sense of violent, dark realities. Magical realism and \ngothic horror make for effective stylistic entryways, as Fragoza \nseamlessly blurs the lines between the corporeal and the abstract.\"—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The magic realism of \u003cem\u003eEat the Mouth that Feeds You \u003c\/em\u003eis thoroughly worked into the fabric of the stories themselves . . . a wonderful debut.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Brian Evenson\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSong for the Unraveling of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carribean Fragoza","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42981639389302,"sku":"9780872868335","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e5b028f6-4f6f-4c72-a962-429332ad3e49.jpg?v=1768586468","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you-9780872868335","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}