Gritos

Essays

By: Dagoberto Gilb

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Paperback | 6 August 2004

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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, Dagoberto Gilb is one of today's most captivating and provocative fiction writers. Now Gilb offers a collection of essays that brilliantly portrays an artist working to earn respect--and find his place--as a Mexican-American in the literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his singular and beloved borderland of Texas. "Gritos" are the exuberant cries in Mexican songs, and Gilb's essays are charged with the same urgency, sincerity, and musicality. In a controversial piece for Harper's, he travels to the land of his mother, where Cortes first met Malinche. In "Mi Mommy, " published in The New Yorker, he tackles the myths surrounding Mexican woman, and in "Me Macho, You Jane, " those surrounding men like himself. In his pieces written for NPR's "Fresh Air, " he engages the reader with scenes as vividly rendered as they are funny, intimate, and sometimes devastating. Like his fiction, Gritos is a riveting glimpse into the heart and mind of a passionate and idiosyncratic thinker.

Industry Reviews

"[Gritos] is a collection about prejudice and pride, told with the flair of a storyteller known for his fiction . . . [Gilb] is so interesting, you can't help but pay attention."
"[Gilb's] language is direct and strikingly honest, and yet he is able to illustrate life's transforming moments with a delicate appreciation of their power and evanescence."
"Gilb knows the dirty secrets of manstuck in emotional exile. And he knows, too, the tools of revelation."
From "an important voice in American fiction" (Annie Proulx), a collection of essays that cuts to the heart of the Mexican-American experience

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