03100nam 2200613Ia 450 991081278780332120240418053510.00-299-23629-31-282-55523-597866125552370-299-23623-4(CKB)2560000000014296(OCoLC)644674203(CaPaEBR)ebrary10386266(SSID)ssj0000422420(PQKBManifestationID)11270387(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422420(PQKBWorkID)10416599(PQKB)11541797(MdBmJHUP)muse12006(Au-PeEL)EBL3444994(CaPaEBR)ebr10386266(CaONFJC)MIL255523(MiAaPQ)EBC3444994(EXLCZ)99256000000001429620091007d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMadre and I[electronic resource] a memoir of our immigrant lives /Guillermo Reyes1st ed.Madison, WI University of Wisconsin Pressc20101 online resource (290 p.)Writing in Latinidad : autobiographical voices of U.S. Latinos/asBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-299-23624-2 Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Love Child -- 2. A Santiago Education -- 3. Comadres -- 4. The Subject Was Roses-or Was It? -- 5. Italian Holiday -- 6. Éxito, or the Language of Success -- 7. María's Wedding -- 8. Pterodactyls -- Epilogue.In this moving and funny memoir, award-winning playwright Guillermo Reyes untangles his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant to the United States and as a young man struggling with sexual repression, body image, and gay identity. But this is a double-decker memoir that also tells the poignant, bittersweet, and adventurous story of Guillermo's mother, María, who supports herself and her son cleaning houses and then working as a nanny in Washington, D.C. and eventually in Hollywood. In one memorable scene, after realizing that her friend Carmen is cleaning the house of one of the producers of Annie Hall, María recruits her to take her picture as she poses dramatically with Mr. Joffe's Oscar in hand. It is María's defiant yet determined attitude amidst her sacrifices that allows for Guillermo's spirited coming of age and coming out. Their common ground is the drama of their encounters with discovery, heartbreak, and passion--the explosive emotions that light up the stage of their two-actor theater.Writing in Latinidad.Hispanic American gay menBiographyImmigrantsUnited StatesBiographyHispanic American gay menImmigrants818/.603Reyes Guillermo A1174718MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812787803321Madre and I2731135UNINA