And I'll Take Out Your Eyes

"An insultingly good debut" following a queer Chicano's cannon-shot into adulthood amidst familial turmoil and the suffocating...
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And I'll Take Out Your Eyes by Sosa, A. M.

And I'll Take Out Your Eyes

$44.92

And I'll Take Out Your Eyes

$44.92
Author: A. M. Sosa
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"An insultingly good debut" following a queer Chicano's cannon-shot into adulthood amidst familial turmoil and the suffocating violence of Stockton, California in the early 2000s (Ruth Madievsky).

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

Since the age of seven, Christian has been under the thumb of a curse. He reads its dark signs everywhere: in his bedridden mother's wilting plants; in his brother's estrangement; in his father's eager fists and glassy stare. He reads it in his nightmares, in Stockton's soundtrack of sirens and gunshot. Above all, he reads the curse in the mirror, watching himself "turn" into the crow his father always predicted he'd become.

Maddened by the city's heatwaves and his own unthinkable desires, often high and drunk, Christian rips through his neighborhood, desperate to escape not only the city but the monster of his pain. But even when he leaves, the curse follows. Can Christian ever be absolved? Or is he condemned to be consumed by the same violence as his father?

And I'll Take Out Your Eyes is a defiant, shattering portrait of self-discovery in the face of violence, mental illness, and other dark inheritances. In a lyric, circuit-bending onslaught of ragers and laments, A. M. Sosa delivers a redemptive story--and an unforgettable debut.

Author: A. M. Sosa
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 9.50h x 6.25w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781643756912

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.

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