Hunger of Memory

Hunger Of Memory is the first memoir of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who began his schooling in Sacramento, California knowing just fifty words of English. 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, and his culture, a high price for "making it" in middle-class America. He concludes his university studies on a Fullbright Scholarship reading in the stately British Museum. Provocative in its strong stand against 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.