![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of Maria’s ruthless imagination and a hastily penned jailhouse correspondence, the life of “Brando Skyhorse,” the Native American son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live as a Mexican American just because he was born one. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his immigrant father. “A West Coast version of Augusten Burroughs’s Running With Scissors.A funny, shocking, generous-hearted book” ( Entertainment Weekly) about a boy, his five stepfathers, and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. One of NBC News’s 10 Best Latino Books of 2014 Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 ![]()
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