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Robert Lopez Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere
- Title
- Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere
- Subtitle
- An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure
- ISBN-10
- 1953387241
- EAN
- 9781953387240
- ISBN
- 9781953387240
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 03/14/2023
- Book Title
- Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere : an American Story of Assimilation and Erasure
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publisher
- Two DOLLAR RADIO
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 14.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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"That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can't quite put my finger on any of this. I'm still grappling with what I've lost and how I can miss something I've never had." Robert Lopez's grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family's efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations. Little is known of Sixto--he may have been a longshoreman, a painter, or a boxer, but was most likely a longshoreman--or why he originally decided to leave Puerto Rico, other than that he was a meticulously slow eater who played the standup keyboard and guitar, and enjoyed watching baseball. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brooklyn's diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from Sixto's remembered traits, in Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure , Robert Lopez paints a compassionate portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and re-claim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure.
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Publisher
Two DOLLAR RADIO
ISBN-10
1953387241
ISBN-13
9781953387240
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7057272522
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere : an American Story of Assimilation and Erasure
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
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"Robert Lopez is one of the most exciting writers working today." --Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation , on A Better Class of People "Lopez has the ability to give the reader whiplash with his unconventional and bewitching stories." --Karolina Waclawiak, Los Angeles Times , on G ood People "Robert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals life to be so wonderfully absurd. Always with Lopez, the voice is all his--enchanting, surprising, at times devastating." --Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins "Robert Lopez's strange, incantatory, visionary stories reveal the mysteries behind the ordinary world." --Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Stay Awake "Nobody else does whatever the hell it is [Lopez]'s doing better than he does." --Justin Taylor, BOMB Magazine "Robert Lopez does amazing things with prose, tone, and sparsity." -- Vol. 1 Brooklyn, on Good People "For my money, there are few writers who can do voice better than Robert Lopez, and few who can evoke so much of a world in so few words." --Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million, "Robert Lopez's Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere is somewhere between a speculative memoir, a mostly unresolved detective story, and a meditation on learning to play tennis. That it's none and all of these things--and more--is its particular genius. It's the wondering and the wandering, the speculation and the narration, the knowing and the not knowing, the life and the tennis, the death and the tennis, and the quick footwork between them that's so powerful here. As Lopez says after his friend was murdered by the police, "The trouble with the end of the world is what to do the day after." What are you going to do? Do what you always do: think, talk, eat too fast, grieve, live, read, write, play tennis." --Ander Monson, author of The Gnome Stories and I Will Take the Answer "For many years, Robert Lopez has been among the most singular writers of American fiction; now he turns the unique precision of his voice and his vision toward himself and his family history. Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere is a masterful work of nonfiction." --Matt Bell, author of Appleseed, "For many years, Robert Lopez has been among the most singular writers of American fiction; now he turns the unique precision of his voice and his vision toward himself and his family history. Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere is a masterful work of nonfiction." --Matt Bell, author of Appleseed
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