Named one of <I>Kirkus Reviews </I>Best Nonfiction Books of 2014<BR> One of NBC News’s 10 Best Latino Books of 2014<BR> <BR>From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of <I>The Glass Castle </I>or <I>The Tender Bar</I>, the true story of a boy’s turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth.<BR><BR>When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of “Brando Skyhorse,” the American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin.<BR> <BR>Through a series of letters to Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a stranger in prison for armed robbery, Maria reinvents herself and her young son as American Indians in the colorful Mexican-American neighborhood of Echo Park, California. There Brando and his mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast of surrogate fathers. It will be over thirty years before Brando begins to untangle the truth of his own past, when a surprise discovery online leads him to his biological father at last.<BR> <BR>From an acclaimed, prize-winning novelist celebrated for his “indelible storytelling” (<I>O, The Oprah Magazine</I>), this extraordinary literary memoir captures a son’s single-minded search for a father wherever he can find one, and is destined to become a classic.