{"product_id":"take-this-man-a-memoir-1","title":"Take This Man: A Memoir","description":"Used paperback in Very Good condition. \u003cb\u003eNamed one of \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Books of 2014\u003cbr\u003e One of NBC News’s 10 Best Latino Books of 2014\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A West Coast version of Augusten Burroughs’s \u003ci\u003eRunning With Scissors\u003c\/i\u003e...A funny, shocking, generous-hearted book” (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) about a boy, his five stepfathers, and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his immigrant father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live as a Mexican American just because he was born one. With the help of Maria’s ruthless imagination and a hastily penned jailhouse correspondence, the life of “Brando Skyhorse,” the Native American son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough 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, where Brando and his mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast of surrogate fathers. It will be thirty years before Brando begins to untangle the truth, when a surprise discovery leads him to his biological father at last.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom this PEN\/Hemingway Award–winning novelist comes an extraordinary literary memoir capturing a mother-son story unlike any other and a boy’s single-minded search for a father, wherever he can find one.","brand":"Skyhorse, Brando","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53876286456091,"sku":"mon0000663688","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/10875923482700.jpg?v=1788533477","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/take-this-man-a-memoir-1","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}