
The Boy Kings of Texas
A Memoir
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Narrated by:
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Emilio Delgado
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By:
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Domingo Martinez
Lyrical and gritty, this New York Times best-selling coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas, insightfully illuminates a little-understood corner of America.
Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving, in a Texas border town in the 1980s. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author’s boyhood spent in his sister’s hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring, complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed but fiercely protective older brother, Daniel. It features a cast of memorable characters, including his gun-hoarding former farmhand, Gramma, and “the Mimis”- two of his older sisters who for a short, glorious time manage to transform themselves from poor Latina adolescents into upper-class white girls. Martinez provides a glimpse into a society where children are traded like commerce, physical altercations routinely solve problems, drugs are rampant, sex is often crude, and people depend on the family witch doctor for advice.
Charming, painful, and enlightening, this book examines the traumas and pleasures of growing up in South Texas and the often terrible consequences when different cultures collide on the banks of a dying river.
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Critic reviews
- National Book Award finalist, 2012
- Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2013
loved it, but at least 2 chapters were out of orde
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It was Okay
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The performance was warm and the writing was vulnerable
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Great book
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Fantastic Story!
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Gripping all the way through.
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Lots and lots of f-bombs, but a fascinating story.
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A very touching coming-of-age story
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Fantastic performance
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A different world
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