Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

Name: Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Carribean Fragoza
ISBN: 9781666538298

Author: Carribean Fragoza

Narrator: Marisa Blake

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 07/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Hispanic & Latino, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the family’s beloved lime tree. Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

About Carribean Fragoza

Carribean Fragoza is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and was raised in South El Monte, California. After graduating from UCLA, she completed the creative writing MFA program at CalArts, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. The founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective, and the co-editor of Boom California, her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications.

About Marisa Blake

Marisa Blake is a multi-award-winning audiobook narrator and voiceover artist who is bilingual in both English and Spanish. Passionate about children's literature, she created the YouTube channel Miss Bee’s Audio Reads and regularly volunteers with Learning Ally, an organization that records audiobooks for children with learning disabilities. She enjoys spending time with her husband and three boys in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by luce (cry bebè's back from hiatus) on May 27, 2022

❀ blog ❀ thestorygraph ❀ letterboxd ❀ tumblr ❀ ko-fi ❀ An exceedingly underwhelming collection. The cover and title of Carribean Fragoza's debut collection succeeded in making me want to read it. After reading the first three stories, however, I found myself feeling rather underwhelmed by Fragoza's......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on April 08, 2024

Read on hoopla. This collection of short stories is right up there with Mariana Enriquez, Things We Lost in the Fire and Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird by Agustina Bazterrica See my updates: 25% done It’s on hoopla and under 200 pages so of course I’m reading it. The first story “Lumberjack Mom” is ab......more

Goodreads review by Queralt✨ on August 06, 2023

This was a huge disappointment. Short story collections are usually a mixed bag of great and not-so-good stories, Eat the Mouth That Feed You was a mix of short stories that either seemed to not have an ending or not have a beginning (or both). The stories felt very underwhelming and pointless, with......more

Quotes

This collection of visceral, often bone-chilling stories centers the liminal world of Latinos in Southern California while fraying reality at its edges. Full of horror and wonder.