Autobiography of My Hungers
Rigoberto González
University of Wisconsin Press
<p>Rigoberto Gonz&aacute;lez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir <i>Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa</i>, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger.<p>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&#8212;all are explored by Gonz&aacute;lez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.<p>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&#8212;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.</p></p></p>