Hunger of Memory

by Richard Rodríguez

Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican American Richard Rodriguez who begins his schooling in Sacramento California knowing just 50 words of English and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum Here is the poignant journey of a minority student who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation from his past his parents his culture and so describes the high price of making it in middle class America Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement a profound study of the importance of language and the moving intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man

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About the author

Richard Rodríguez is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodríguez (1982). His work has appeared in Harper's, The American Scholar, the Los Ángeles Times Magazine, and The New Republic. Richard's awards include the Frankel Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the International Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council of California. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction; and the National Book Critics' Award.