Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

By: Carribean Fragoza

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small daughter, whose penchant for ingesting grandma's letters has extended to taking bites of her actual flesh. A brother and sister watch anxiously as their distraught mother takes an ax to their old furniture, and then to the backyard fence, until finally she attacks the family’s beloved lime tree.

Victories are excavated from the rubble of personal hardship, and women's wisdom is brutally forged from the violence of history that continues to unfold on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

©2021 Carribean Fragoza (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Stories intertwined with culture and wisdom

This is a short story collection that pours the wisdom and spirituality that only festers from sacred spaces of culture and tradition. But first it has to bypass the brutality of colonialism so you can see the rose that grew from concrete. Beautiful story weaver. The ancestors weep with joy each time this book is read.

This is what fiction should be

What a ride through the mind imagination and the sublime. Every story so different but connected through the words of someone obviously raised in a world that was hard and soft, sour as lemons and sweet as the agua de limón made on the sunny days.