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Abuela, Don't Forget Me
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Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humour, heartbreak and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy
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In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence of a woman he could always count on—to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in.
Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life.
Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself.
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Rex Ogle's Abuela, Don't Forget Me is praised for its exploration of intergenerational relationships and the deep bond between the author and his abuela. The book offers an honest and poignant portrayal of heavy subjects like child abuse and financial difficulties, but also provides hope and comfort to young readers. Critics highlight the memoir's evocative verses, with reflections that emphasise the significance of family ties and cherished moments.
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ISBN: 9781324019954
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 09 September 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 147.0mm
Height: 218.0mm
Weight: 361g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, which won the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, a finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag; and the novel When We Ride. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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