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Madre and I: A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives
Guillermo Reyes
In this moving and funny memoir, award-winning playwright Guillermo Reyes untangles his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant to the United States and as a young man struggling with sexual repression, body image, and gay identity. But this is a double-decker memoir that also tells the poignant, bittersweet, and adventurous story of Guillermo’s mother, María, who supports herself and her son cleaning houses and then working as a nanny in Washington, D.C., and eventually in Hollywood.
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Published: 2010
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
- 978-0-29923-624-3 (paper)
- 978-0-29923-623-6 (ebook)
- 978-0-29923-629-8 (ebook)