And I'll Take Out Your Eyes: A Novel - Hardcover

Sosa, Allan Martín Nava

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1643756915 ISBN 13: 9781643756912

Publisher: Little, Brown US, 2025

Synopsis

Cría cuervos y te sacaran los ojos: Raise crows and they will take out your eyes.

A boy wakes up with a knife in his hand. It's the early '90s in Stockton, CA, when Christian is caught sleepwalking in the kitchen by his family-the beginning of a curse unleashed by an aunt. To save Christian and the family from the curse, the family seeks out a curandero who promises salvation, but at a price Christian wishes he didn't have to pay.

As Christian grows up the curse follows him. His father emotionally and physically torments him, his mother's health spirals, his relationship with his brother deteriorates; nothing goes his way. Christian finds solace in a group of friends, bonded together by the sufferings that plague their community. As the childhood chaos of ripping and running in order to survive breaks way to an adolescence beyond his local neighborhood and a lifeline in the form of writing, Christian must decide: be consumed and enact the same violence that has plagued him, or break the cycle, once and for all.

And I'll Take Out Your Eyes is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the power of memory and the curses we inherit from our family, and how to overcome them. Told in a voice that is clear and unflinching, this is ultimately a story of redemption.

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About the Author

A. M. Sosa (they/them) is a queer Mexican-American writer from Stockton, CA, and a recent graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA Programs in Writing where they were awarded the 2022 Henfield Prize. In 2023, they were named a Tin House scholar. Their fiction has been published in Zyzzyva and the Santa Monica Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown US
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1643756915
• ISBN 13: 9781643756912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304