Autobiography of My Hungers (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

Rigoberto Gonz¡lez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger.

            The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body€"all are explored by Gonz¡lez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.

            Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment that comes in various forms€"even "the smallest biggest joys" help piece together a complex portrait of a gay man of color who at last defines himself by what he learns, not by what he yearns for.

Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Publishing Triangle

€œTold in a series of revealing vignettes and poems, Gonz¡lez€s Autobiography of my Hungers turns moments of need and want into revelations of truth and self-awareness, creating the portrait of an artist that is complex if not entirely complete.€€"El Paso Times

€œThrough his provocative vignettes, Gonz¡lez communicates a lifetime of struggle for affirmation and self-acceptance.€€"Make/Shift