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Monkey Boy : a Novel by Francisco Goldman, Francisco Goldman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Monkey Boy : a Novel about?
Francisco Goldman's first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (winner of the Prix Femina étranger), Monkey Boy is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity-- whether Jewish/Catholic, white/brown, native/expat--and one misfit's quest to heal his damaged past and find love. Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living in Mexico when, because of a threat provoked by his journalism, he flees to New York City, hoping to start afresh. His last relationship ended devastatingly five years before, and he may now finally be on the cusp of a new love with a young Mexican woman he meets in Brooklyn. But Francisco is soon beckoned back to his childhood home outside Boston by a high school girlfriend who witnessed his youthful humiliations, and to visit his Guatemalan mother, Yolanda, whose intermittent lucidity unearths forgotten pockets of the past. On this five-day trip, the specter of Frank's recently deceased father, Bert, an immigrant from Ukraine - pathologically abusive, yet also at times infuriatingly endearing -- as well as the dramatic Guatemalan woman who helped raise him, and the high school bullies who called him "monk
Who reads Monkey Boy : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Francisco Goldman, Francisco Goldman
- Publisher
- New York, NY: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802157676
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (242 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14