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Bezig met laden... Take This Man: A Memoirdoor Brando Skyhorse
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  juliechabon | May 9, 2024 |    ) poetreegirl | Oct 16, 2018 | jhawn | Jul 31, 2017 | MissItaly | Jan 28, 2016 | His mother craved the exoticism and purpose that came with being a Native American in the 1970s. She told people her name was Running Deer, instead of Maria Teresa. She told Brando that his father was Paul Skyhorse, which brought with it more confusion because there were actually two men named Paul Skyhorse with whom she was in contact. But in the end, neither of them was his father, and essentially his entire life was based on a series of lies, fantasies, stories that his mother had come up with. Read for Skyhorse's voice and thoughts on his upbringing, and his ideas of what really makes a father, and a cultural identity. Don't bother reading for the chaotic childhood; those memoirs are a dime a dozen and honestly, his mother is only average in the memoir crazy races. Overall I found it interesting, but my attention did wander at times. (  )1  ursula | Sep 29, 2014 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of "Brando Skyhorse," the American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin. Through a series of letters to Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a stranger in prison for armed robbery, Maria reinvents herself and her young son as American Indians in the colorful Mexican American neighborhood of Echo Park, California. There Brando and his mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast of surrogate fathers. It will be over thirty years before Brando begins to untangle the truth of his own past, when a surprise discovery online leads him to his biological father at last. From an acclaimed, prize-winning novelist celebrated for his "indelible storytelling" (O, The Oprah Magazine), this extraordinary literary memoir captures a son's single-minded search for a father wherever he can find one and is destined to become a classic. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)818.603Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.05)
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I read until I couldn't. At least one of his "fathers" showed a long term interest in him. Even then, young Brando was a mess of emotions and confusion.
A good read whether you had a bitter growing up, as too many do, or are one of the lucky sweepstakes winners. (