{"product_id":"tortured-barrio-songs-reyes-cardenas-9781733809238","title":"Tortured Barrio Songs","description":"Tortured Barrio Songs is really not one book, but a Trinity of three books, each tied to and adding to the understanding of the others. C rdenas brings to bear, once again, his signature no-holds-barred humor, crossed with a stinging criticism of the injustices of being poor in America, something reflected sharply in all three of the works. Andr s Sobaco, El Numbnuts, a flowing and painfully beautiful novel-in-verse set in the West Side barrios of San Antonio; El Ocho Patas, a darker, more philosophical and metaphorical tale of the man with eight legs; and Canciones Desesperadas, a collection of poems unveiling the formative root experiences of the poet and other real people in his Vonnegut-style karass of a barrio, together make a book both irreverent and yet somehow filled with respeto for life and the universe. The tender sacrileges with which he addresses God, or Christ, or La Llorona, remind us of a man whose tragedies have been so crushing that the hope within him has become even more persistent, and even more resilient.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reyes Cardenas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733809236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733809238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Flowersong Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.70d","brand":"Reyes Cardenas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125340303615,"sku":"9781733809238","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bbc3593-1b29-457f-b3e5-88bb821177a1.jpg?v=1687442058","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tortured-barrio-songs-reyes-cardenas-9781733809238","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}