{"title":"Memoirs","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"unforgetting-a-memoir-of-family-migration-gangs-and-revolution-in-the-americas-by-roberto-lovato","title":"Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time—and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens, he lost friends to the escalating violence, and survived acts of brutality himself. He eventually traded the violence of the streets for human rights advocacy in wartime El Salvador where he joined the guerilla movement against the U.S.-backed, fascist military government responsible for some of the most barbaric massacres and crimes against humanity in recent history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoberto returned from war-torn El Salvador to find the United States on the verge of unprecedented crises of its own. There, he channeled his own pain into activism and journalism, focusing his attention on how trauma affects individual lives and societies, and began the difficult journey of confronting the roots of his own trauma. As a child, Roberto endured a tumultuous relationship with his father Ramón. Raised in extreme poverty in the countryside of El Salvador during one of the most violent periods of its history, Ramón learned to survive by straddling intersecting underworlds of family secrets, traumatic silences, and dealing in black-market goods and guns. The repression of the violence in his life took its toll, however. Ramón was plagued with silences and fits of anger that had a profound impact on his youngest son, and which Roberto attributes as a source of constant reckoning with the violence and rebellion in his own life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnforgetting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Roberto interweaves his father’s complicated history and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life, state violence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. In doing so he makes the political personal, revealing the cyclical ways violence operates in our homes and our societies, as well as the ways hope and tenderness can rise up out of the darkness if we are courageous enough to unforget.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47307919425778,"sku":"","price":27.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/41DHBuVSopL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1739928858"},{"product_id":"crying-in-the-bathroom-a-memoir-by-erika-l-sanchez","title":"Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erika L. Sánchez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrowing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the ‘90s, Erika L. 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Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCrying in the Bathroom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis Sánchez at her best: a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":48924282945778,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"SPA- Spanish","offer_id":48924282978546,"sku":null,"price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/81AzxU3F1RL._SY466.jpg?v=1742499160"},{"product_id":"children-of-the-land-a-memoir-by-marcelo-hernandez-castillo","title":"Children of the Land: A Memoir by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChildren of the Land\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47662060175602,"sku":"","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/E590F83F-6351-4E05-A436-A320200B31F0.jpg?v=1749910041"},{"product_id":"boy-kings-of-texas-a-memoir","title":"Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLyrical and gritty, this authentic 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47716140679410,"sku":null,"price":22.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/91V4MKMyQuL._SL1500.jpg?v=1751495181"},{"product_id":"the-sum-of-our-days-a-memoir","title":"The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLa suma de los días\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abierta, llena de gente y de personajes literarios, y protegida por un espíritu; hijas perdidas, nietos y libros que nacen, éxitos y dolores, un viaje al mundo de las adicciones y otros a lugares remotos del mundo en busca de inspiración, junto a divorcios, encuentros, amores, separaciones, crisis de pareja y reconciliaciones.\u003cbr\u003eTambién es una historia de amor entre un hombre y una mujer maduros, que han salvado muchos escollos sin perder ni la pasión ni el humor, y de una familia moderna, desgarrada por conflictos y unida, a pesar de todo, por el cariño y la decisión de salir adelante.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Sum of Our Days\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination of a beloved matriarch, the indomitable\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Isabel Allende.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An inspiring and thought-provoking work.\" –Denver Post \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory—and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":47782454493426,"sku":null,"price":27.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"SPA- Spanish","offer_id":47782454526194,"sku":null,"price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail_9af0ee9a-36f9-4a6b-877b-70ce2f6851be.gif?v=1774631130"},{"product_id":"memorias-del-aguila-y-el-jaguar-memoir-of-the-eagle-and-the-jaguar-la-ciudad-de-las-bestias-el-reino-del-dragon-de-oro-y-el-bosque-de-los-pigmeos-spanish","title":"Memorias del Águila Y El Jaguar \/ Memoir of the Eagle and the Jaguar: La Ciudad de Las Bestias, El Reino del Dragon de Oro, Y El Bosque de Los Pigmeos (Spanish) by Isabel Allende","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"16780249080956618823\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Memorias del águila y del jaguar\" is a young adult fantasy trilogy by Isabel Allende, following the adventures of Alexander Cold, his grandmother Kate, and their friend Nadia Santos through the Amazon, the Himalayas, and Africa, where they encounter magical creatures, spiritual guides (the jaguar and eagle), and face challenges like poachers and political intrigue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"16780249080956618554\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe three books are La ciudad de las bestias, El reino del dragón de oro, and El bosque de los pigmeos, often sold together in a single volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"65397491-a4ff-45f7-8136-68af57edd4dd\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"UV3uM\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47782460555506,"sku":null,"price":26.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/81Z0mycCIDL._SL1500.jpg?v=1753302078"},{"product_id":"my-invented-country-a-memoir","title":"My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe revered\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHouse of the Spirits\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Long Petal of the Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eponders the elements that led to her becoming a writer, including the homeland she lost and the one she found, and the family spirits, both living and dead, who haunt her life and work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this wondrous and intimate book, Isabel Allende explores the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and that most intimate connection to her place of origin. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Invented Country\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebrings her homeland of Chile to life in her unique voice, evoking the magnificent landscapes of her land, the almost mythic people of her family; the tragedy and hope of her people; and the politics, religion, and magic that infuse them all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Invented Country\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e orbits two life-changing moments: the 1973 assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens which sent her into exile and inspired her literary career; and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States. Ping-ponging across distance and time, between past and present lives, it is a monumental tribute to history and the immigrant experience and a wise and personal consideration of what it means to pursue a reflective life in a cacophonous, contradictory world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47782474023154,"sku":null,"price":21.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/71LEKCout0L._SL1500.jpg?v=1753302978"},{"product_id":"my-beloved-world-by-sonia-sotomayor","title":"My Beloved World (A memoir) by Sonia Sotomayor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA “searching and emotionally intimate memoir” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) told with a candor never before undertaken by a sitting Justice. This “powerful defense of empathy” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) is destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this story of human triumph that “hums with hope and exhilaration” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself. She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlong the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901744136434,"sku":null,"price":22.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/819OxN8Ad8L._SL1500.jpg?v=1757095997"},{"product_id":"solito-a-memoir","title":"Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN\/Open Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eI read \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSolito\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Emma Straub\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave Eggers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNPR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTrip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJavier Zamora’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eadventure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA memoir as gripping as it is moving, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSolito\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSolito\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English \/ Hardcover","offer_id":48402822004978,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ENG- English \/ Paperback","offer_id":48402822037746,"sku":null,"price":25.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"SPA- Spanish \/ Paperback","offer_id":48402822070514,"sku":null,"price":25.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/81dSiI_zi7L._SL1500_f97e0855-de80-473a-a6a0-e3b2f4a06206.jpg?v=1764727919"},{"product_id":"portrait-of-a-feminist-a-memoir-in-essays-by-marianna-marlowe","title":"Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays by Marianna Marlowe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eInfused with a passion for justice, this sublime, expansive memoir by a Peruvian American feminist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewill appeal to fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCrying in H Mart \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Raise a Feminist Son\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough braided memories that flash against the present day, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePortrait of a Feminist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e depicts the evolution of Marianna Marlowe’s identity as a biracial and multicultural woman—from her childhood in California, Peru, and Ecuador to her adulthood as an academic, a wife, and a mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow does the inner life of a feminist develop? How does a writer observe the world around her and kindle, from her earliest memories, a flame attuned to the unjust?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith writing that is simultaneously wise and shimmering, nuanced and direct, Marlowe confronts her own experiences with the hallmarks of patriarchy. Interweaving stories of life as the child of a Catholic Peruvian mother and an atheist American father in a family that lived many years abroad, she examines realities familiar to so many of us—unequal marriages, class structures, misogynist literature, and patriarchal religion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePortrait of a Feminist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the essential questions of feminism in our time: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat does it look like to live in defense of feminism?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow should feminism be evolving today?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raíces Books and Merch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48815944925426,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/6122\/8018\/files\/718pw840GNL._SL1500.jpg?v=1772560064"}],"url":"https:\/\/raicesbooksandmerch.com\/collections\/memoirs.oembed","provider":"Raíces Books and Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}