Fragoza’s Eat the Mouth That Feeds You is a feminist short story collection that gathers work of sensual corporeality. Ten surreal stories focusing on Chicana women, sometimes grotesque, often sketched with great tenderness, draw you deeper into what it feels like to be alive. These tales deploy sight gags, insights about power, and careful illumination of the body—its hunger, its blood, its guts—to excavate human truths. Relations, both intact and severed, among women are at the forefront: Children observe and then supervise their mother as she chops up not only logs but also furniture, and then eventually a living tree is implicated. The angel of a child killed by her father cements a friendship with a girl struck by lightning. In the stunning title story, a mother is literally consumed by her daughter.•
City Lights Books EAT THE MOUTH THAT FEEDS YOU, BY CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA
City Lights Books EAT THE MOUTH THAT FEEDS YOU, BY CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA
