Title:
The death of my father the pope : a memoir / Obed Silva.
ISBN:
9780374539160
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
292 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
The wake -- Intermission -- The burial -- The beginning.
Summary:
"A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a paradox: to pay tribute, lay scorn upon, or pour a drink. A wrenching, dazzling, revelatory debut"-- Provided by publisher
Silva and his mother had come north across the border to escape his father's violent, drunken rages. His father had followed, going in and out of the family's life until he was arrested and deported back to Mexico, where he drank himself to death at the age of forty-eight. Silva channels the heartbreak of mourning while wrestling with the resentment and frustration caused by addiction: his father's lifelong battle with alcoholism and the havoc it wreaked on his family. -- adapted from jacket
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1182569344
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