Saldaña Jr René

Eventually, Inevitably / Tarde O Temprano Era Inevitable

My Writing Life in Verse / Mi Vida de Escritor En Verso

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Produktbeschreibung

When students ask author René Saldaña, Jr. how one becomes a writer, he says, "It's complicated." In this memoir written in verse for young adults, the author remembers his boyhood and the path that led to his becoming a reader, writer and scholar. He begins with "The Deets: My Parents as Kids," and recounts "'Apá was born a long time ago / 'Amá a few years after him." His father finished elementary school in Mier, Tamaulipas, and then went to Nuevo Laredo to study machines. His parents married in Chihuahua, Texas: "It's got one street / called Charco, or mud-puddle." René's childhood along the Texas-Mexico border was filled with lots of family--cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents; his abuelo told countless stories that helped define the boy. He read magazines at the grocery store, watched his mother read Selecciones, the Spanish-language version of Reader's Digest, and realized writing poetry was the way to get a girlfriend. But he remembers junior high school as "those blasted years" and the teachers "who made me fall / out of love with reading a book." Later he found a book in the library in which he saw himself for the first time; there were kids that spoke Spanish, had brown skin and names like his. This touching portrait depicts the development of a writer and the impact his rural, Mexican-American community had on his growth into a published author and university scholar. Written in an accessible style and available in a bilingual format, this moving and often humorous memoir in narrative verse will appeal to all teens. Young people of color and reluctant male readers will find it of particular interest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pinata Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Altersempfehlung: 13 bis 17 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781558859814
• ISBN-10: 1558859810
• Artikelnr.: 67742397

Autorenporträt

RENÉ SALDAÑA, JR. is the author of the bilingual Mickey Rangel Mystery series for kids, Dancing with the Devil and Other Tales from Beyond / Bailando con el Diablo y otros cuentos del más allá (Piñata Books, 2012), The Whole Sky Full of Stars (Random House, 2007), Finding Our Way: Stories (Random House, 2003) and The Jumping Tree (Delacorte, 2001). He lives in Lubbock, Texas, where he teaches in the College of Education at Texas Tech University.