{"product_id":"b081ffypb5","title":"Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn  LA Times  Best Book of the Year  •   A  New York Times  Editors' Pick  •  A  Newsweek  25\u003cbr\u003e\nBest Fall Books  •  A  The Millions  Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of\u003cbr\u003e\na revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror\u003cbr\u003e\nthat connects El Salvador and the United States.   —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of  Natural\u003cbr\u003e\nCauses  and  Nickel and Dimed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare,\u003cbr\u003e\nintergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals\u003cbr\u003e\nthe intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central\u003cbr\u003e\nAmerican migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood\u003cbr\u003e\nhumanitarian crises of our time—and one in which the perspectives of Central\u003cbr\u003e\nAmericans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in\u003cbr\u003e\n1970s and 80s San Francisco as MS-13 and other notorious Salvadoran gangs were\u003cbr\u003e\nforming in California. In his teens, he lost friends to the escalating\u003cbr\u003e\nviolence, and survived acts of brutality himself. He eventually traded the\u003cbr\u003e\nviolence of the streets for human\u003cbr\u003e\nrights advocacy in wartime El Salvador\u003cbr\u003e\nwhere he joined the guerilla movement against the U.S.-backed, fascist military\u003cbr\u003e\ngovernment responsible for some of the most barbaric massacres and crimes\u003cbr\u003e\nagainst humanity in recent history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoberto returned from war-torn El Salvador to find the United\u003cbr\u003e\nStates on the verge of unprecedented crises of its own. There, he channeled his\u003cbr\u003e\nown pain into activism and journalism, focusing his attention on how trauma\u003cbr\u003e\naffects individual lives and societies, and began the difficult journey of\u003cbr\u003e\nconfronting the roots of his own trauma. As a child, Roberto endured a\u003cbr\u003e\ntumultuous relationship with his father Ramón. Raised in extreme poverty in the\u003cbr\u003e\ncountryside of El Salvador during one of the most violent periods of its\u003cbr\u003e\nhistory, Ramón learned to survive by straddling intersecting underworlds of\u003cbr\u003e\nfamily secrets, traumatic silences, and dealing in black-market goods and guns.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe repression of the violence in his life took its toll, however. Ramón was\u003cbr\u003e\nplagued with silences and fits of anger that\u003cbr\u003e\nhad a profound impact on his youngest son, and which Roberto attributes as a\u003cbr\u003e\nsource of constant reckoning with the violence and rebellion in his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn  Unforgetting , Roberto interweaves his father’s\u003cbr\u003e\ncomplicated history and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life, state\u003cbr\u003e\nviolence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the\u003cbr\u003e\nUnited States. In doing so he makes the political personal, revealing the\u003cbr\u003e\ncyclical ways violence operates in our homes and our societies, as well as the\u003cbr\u003e\nways hope and tenderness can rise up out of the darkness if we are courageous\u003cbr\u003e\nenough to unforget.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52855268737240,"sku":"YSL82955","price":8.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/91SJ_HqFFbL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793417480","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b081ffypb5","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}