Bibliograph

Take this man, a memoir, Brando Skyhorse

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Take this man, a memoir, Brando Skyhorse

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Take this man

Oclc number

876368008

Responsibility statement

Brando Skyhorse

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

"When 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. The life of 'Brando Skyhorse, ' the American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin. Through 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 lively 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 more than thirty years before Brando begins to untangle the truth, when a surprise discovery online leads him to his biological father at last. From an acclaimed, prize-winning novelist ... this extraordinary literary memoir captures an unforgettable mother-son story and a boy's single-minded search for a father, wherever he can find one."--Front flap of jacket

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