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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

By: Carribean Fragoza
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
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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.

©2021 Carribean Fragoza (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories United States Women's Fiction World Literature
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