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Title: It Calls You Back
Subtitle: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Author: Luis J. Rodríguez
Narrator: Jacob Vargas
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-11
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Growing up on the streets of East L.A., Luis Rodriguez narrowly escaped a serious jail term and then struggled to overcome his powerful addiction to heroin and alcohol. Eventually, Rodriguez embarked on a career as a successful journalist and a highly regarded poet. In It Calls You Back, Rodriguez describes with heartbreaking honesty his challenges as a husband and a father and his difficulty leaving his criminal past completely behind. Most disturbing is the terrifying realization that he cannot save his own son from the deadly lure of gang life. Luis's emotional journey offers deep insight into barrio life and the embattled souls of those heroic men and women who risk everything to make it out - and return to help those left behind.
Critic Reviews:
"...needle-to-skin candor...courageously forthright...every teen concerned about gangs will learn profound lessons from this frank and demanding memoir." - (Booklist)
"Rodriguez tells an honest, direct story." (Publishers Weekly)
"Rodriguez's life story is astonishing... It takes a heart broken open by a lifetime of sorrows to write with this wisdom and compassion. It takes a visionary to use this knowledge in service to those the world despises - troubled youth, the homeless, the incarcerated, the poor, the migrant - to be called back for those you love." (Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street)
