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Author Skyhorse, Brando.

Title Take this man : a memoir / Brando Skyhorse.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  818.603 SKY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B SKYHORSE, B.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B SKYHORSE    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B SKYHORSE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B SKYHORSE BRANDO S    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 258 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this ... memoir in the vein of The glass castle or The tender 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Skyhorse, Brando -- Childhood and youth.
Skyhorse, Brando -- Family.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Family relationships.
Mothers and sons -- United States.
Fathers and sons -- United States.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family.
ISBN 9781439170878 (hbk.)
1439170878 (hbk.)
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