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Title: Take This Man
Subtitle: A Memoir
Author: Brando Skyhorse
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-03-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 42 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or TheTender Bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth.
When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as 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 colorful Mexican American neighborhood of Echo Park,California. There Brando and his mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast of surrogate fathers. It will be over 30 years before Brando begins to untangle the truth of his own past, when a surprise discovery onlineleads him to his biological father at last.
From an acclaimed, prize-winning novelist celebrated for his"indelible storytelling" (O, The Oprah Magazine), this extraordinary literary memoir captures a son's single-minded search for a father wherever he can find one and is destined to become a classic.
Editorial Reviews:
Editors Select, June 2014 - Brando Skyhorses astonishing first novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park made the kind of waves very few debut authors can dream of, winning multiple awards including the PEN/Hemingway. Following up on this excellent first offering is his memoir a richly atmospheric work that paints a true story portrait as foil to his fictionalized version of Echo Park. Skyhorse (spoiler alert- that wasnt his given name) had the quintessential upbringing of a novelist because it was a childhood steeped in fiction. His mother had a knack for lies and legend making, and that gave rise to the five relationships that are the heart of this book- the five fathers who all contributed to the story that his mother wanted her life and her sons life to tell. This already excellent memoir is set to be made more so courtesy of Bronson Pinchot whose gift for performing narrative nonfiction is second to none.