{"product_id":"monkey-boy-paperback","title":"Monkey Boy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancisco Goldman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Painful, refractive, beautiful . . . Goldman is beloved.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMonkey Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, Francisco Goldman's \"brilliantly constructed auto-fiction\" (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up as the son of immigrants--a Guatemalan Catholic mother and a Russian Jewish father--in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb. Told in an irresistibly funny, tender and passionate voice, this extraordinary portrait of family explores the pressures of living between worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold 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. \u003ci\u003eMonkey Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is a new masterpiece of fiction from one of the most important American voices in the last forty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Goldman has published four previous novels and two books of nonfiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Night of White Chickens \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the American Academy's Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Interior Circuit \u003c\/i\u003ewas named by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e one of 10 best books of the year. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Political Murder\u003c\/i\u003e is now an HBO documentary. Goldman's most recent novel, Say Her Name, won the Prix Femina étranger. His books have been published in sixteen languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.19 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pulitzer Prize (2022)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692265345087,"sku":"9780802157683","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1b075bdbdafbaa1aa422c1f29c937f18.webp?v=1764994866","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/monkey-boy-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}