Over halfway through the book, Alex’s kidnapping can only return as a deft anti-climax. This is not a thriller. It’s a sentimental memoir about male vulnerability ... it eloquently memorializes the desire to be a man who has mutually supportive relationships with other men ... It’s a poignant study of Latino masculinity written with the poet’s sensitivity for all that can be contained in an image, a moment.
Generous and intimate ... a riveting account of the bond that saved two brothers from their tortured past while offering lucid glimpses into the meaning of Latino manhood ... A raw, emotionally intense memoir.
