Boy Kings of Texas : A Memoir (Paperback)

from Hagelstein

Domingo Martinez grew up in Brownsville, Texas as part of an extended, dysfunctional Mexican-American family. In this engaging memoir he tells what it was like to have a "boy-tyrant" for a father and a grandmother he believed was the devil. She took life insurance policies out on all the young me...

from zmagic69

An inside look at life in the barrio in a border town in Texas. The author notes in a number of sections of the book he sees a therapist. After reading about his life growing up it is amazing he doesn't spend everyday in therapy. Throughout the story the author is somehow able to keep a sense of ...

from jennyo

I picked this book up in the San Jose airport a couple of weeks ago. It was good enough that I finished half of it on the plane. Took me a little while to finish the rest of it because I snuck Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson in, and I had a ton of homework to do. But I stayed up late last night and...

from Hagelstein

Domingo Martinez grew up in Brownsville, Texas as part of an extended, dysfunctional Mexican-American family. In this engaging memoir he tells what it was like to have a "boy-tyrant" for a father and a grandmother he believed was the devil. She took life insurance policies out on all the young me...

from muddyboy

From the barrio of south Texas to Seattle you will experience the roller coaster life of Mr. Martinez through fights, drinking, dysfunctional family gatherings to unworkable love affairs. There is a father with very few redeemable qualities, a conniving and manipulative grandmother, a brother who...