My Heart Is a Drunken Compass
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And, finally, for you, Sarah Berry. This is all gravy, darling.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Domingo Martinez is the New York Times best-selling author of The Boy Kings of Texas and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012. The Boy Kings of Texas is a Gold Medal Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award and was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. It has been optioned by HBO for an original series. Martinez’s work has appeared in Epiphany literary journal, Huizache literary magazine, New Republic, and Saveur magazine, and he is a regular contributor to This American Life. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and the Diane Rehm Show and was the recipient of the Bernard De Voto Fellowship in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2013. Martinez is also a widely sought speaker on topics ranging from the contemporary Latino experience in America to the consequences and processes of writing memoir.
Also by Domingo Martinez
National Book Award Finalist
New York Times best-selling author
Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal Winner
“An emotional roller coaster rendered in exquisite detail.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“A hilarious and heartbreaking story of a sensitive soul who grows up in the macho barrio of Brownsville, Texas.”
—SEATTLE TIMES
“A starkly honest memoir of growing up on the Texas-Mexican border in the 1970s and ’80s, with a wry twist.”
—SHELF AWARENESS
“A nonfiction masterpiece.”
—TEXAS OBSERVER
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