{"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\u003cbr\u003e Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the domestic surreal, \u003cbr\u003efeaturing an unusual gathering of Latinx and Chicanx voices from both \u003cbr\u003esides 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\u003cbr\u003e Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness \u003cbr\u003eas they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat\u003cbr\u003e them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly \u003cbr\u003ewhere she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A \u003cbr\u003emother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed \u003cbr\u003eby her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters \u003cbr\u003ehas extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister \u003cbr\u003ewatch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old \u003cbr\u003efurniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the\u003cbr\u003e family's beloved lime tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictories are excavated from the \u003cbr\u003erubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from \u003cbr\u003ethe violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the \u003cbr\u003eUS-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\".\u003cbr\u003e . . a work of power and a darkly brilliant talisman that enlarges in \u003cbr\u003enecessary 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\u003cbr\u003e surreal and gothic stories, focused on Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant \u003cbr\u003ewomen'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\u003cbr\u003e collection of visceral, often bone-chilling stories centers the liminal\u003cbr\u003e world of Latinos in Southern California while fraying reality at its \u003cbr\u003eedges. 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\u003cbr\u003e debut collection delivers expertly crafted tales of Latinx people \u003cbr\u003etrying to make sense of violent, dark realities. Magical realism and \u003cbr\u003egothic horror make for effective stylistic entryways, as Fragoza \u003cbr\u003eseamlessly 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of Mexican immigrants, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte, California. After graduating from UCLA, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. Fragoza is founder of \u003cem\u003eVicious Ladies, \u003c\/em\u003e a new website publishing womxn, queer, and non-binary critics of color. She co-edits UC Press's acclaimed California cultural journal, \u003cem\u003eBoom California\u003c\/em\u003e, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Zyzzyva, \u003cem\u003eAlta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBOMB, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eHuizache\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books. \u003c\/em\u003eShe is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eEast of East: The Making of Greater El Monte\u003c\/em\u003e and Senior Writer at the \u003cem\u003eTropics of Meta. \u003c\/em\u003eCarribean is the Coordinator of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award at Claremont Graduate University, and she lives in the San Gabriel Valley in LA County.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719292129554,"sku":"9780872868335","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6550158-1a4b-4f87-9a92-c11a4d921c13.jpg?v=1734664301","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you-9780872868335","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}