Monkey Boy

Monkey Boy
Francisco Goldman
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
5 May 2022 US
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9781611854428
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Francisco Goldman' s first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of the Prix Femina etranger), Monkey Boy is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity-- whether Jewish/Catholic, white/brown, native/expat--and one misfit' s quest to heal his damaged past and find love. Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living in Mexico when, because of a threat provoked by his journalism, he flees to New York City, hoping to start afresh. His last relationship ended devastatingly five years before, and he may now finally be on the cusp of a new love with a young Mexican woman he meets in Brooklyn. But Francisco is soon beckoned back to his childhood home outside Boston by a high school girlfriend who witnessed his youthful humiliations, and to visit his Guatemalan mother, Yolanda, whose intermittent lucidity unearths forgotten pockets of the past. On this five-day trip, the specter of Frank' s recently deceased father, Bert, an immigrant from Ukraine - pathologically abusive, yet also at times infuriatingly endearing -- as well as the dramatic Guatemalan woman who helped raise him, and the high school bullies who called him "monkey boy," all loom. Told in an intimate, irresistibly funny, and passionate voice, this extraordinary portrait of family and growing up "halfie," unearths the hidden cruelties in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb where Francisco came of age, and explores the pressures of living between worlds all his life. Monkey Boy is a new masterpiece of fiction from one of the most important American voices in the last forty years.
Advance Praise for Monkey Boy "The warmth and humanity of Goldman' s storytelling are impossible to resist. " --Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Captivating. . . Goldman' s direct, intimate writing alone is worth the price of admission. " --Publishers Weekly "A boldly intimate dissection of the ways we live our lives, the colliding mashups of ethnic & national identity, of the many natures of love & family. A tour de force from an uncommonly gifted writer. " --Jon Lee Anderson "Francisco Goldman . . . Francisco Goldberg? . . . Frankie Gee!--crafter of the tenderest dirtiest love scenes!--the wisest and spookiest children!--the fathers whose monstrosity breaks our hearts with compassion for them--who else can do all this? Francisco Goldman is uncategorizable, as is this book which made me grow a second heart just to contain all its fierce tenderness. Goldman has been my literary hero from his first entrancing Long Night of White Chickens to this latest take-no-prisoners Monkey Boy. He is a true original, that rarest of writers, the kind we cannot live without. " --Susan Choi "From the painful intimate violence in a suburban New England home, to racial cruelty among high school teenagers, to the US government' s political and military interventionism in Latin America, Goldman' s sweeping gaze runs through multiple circuits of America' s violence, showing us how deeply connected they in fact are. With the exact balance of outrage and hope, Monkey Boy takes us on an eye-opening journey, full of tenderness and horror, through the often-ignored layers of this country' s history. A powerful, necessary book. " --Valeria Luiselli "Francisco Goldman, one of our most brilliant political writers, is also, miraculously, a Chekhov of the heart. This novel is wild, funny, and wrenching, as well as a profound act of retrieval and transformation. " --Rivka Galchen "Monkey Boy is written with tenderness and emotional precision. It tells what it means to be an American, to have an identity that is nourished by many sources, including ones that are mysterious and shrouded in secrecy. It is a story of two cities--Boston and Guatemala--and an account of a man' s relationship with his mother, who is evoked here in sharp and loving detail. It is a book about how we piece the past together. Goldman bridges the gap between imagination and memory with stunning lyricism and unsparing clarity. " --Colm Toibin
Francisco Goldman has published five novels and two books of nonfiction. The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy' s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the novel Say Her Name won the 2011 Prix Femina etranger. The Ordinary Seaman was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Divine Husband was a finalist for the Believer Book Award. The Art of Political Murder won the Index on Censorship T. R. Fyvel Book Award and the WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award. The Interior Circuit, published in 2013, was named by the LA Times as one of ten best books of the year and received the Blue Metropolis "Premio Azul. " He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Berlin Fellow. His books have been published in sixteen languages.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781611854428
Published: 5 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 336

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