Cuban Son Rising by Gomez, Charles

Cuban Son Rising

Winner, Best Autobiography, International Latino Book Awards"... a gut-wrenching memoir that captures the rollercoaster of horror and...
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Author: Charles Gomez
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Cuban Son Rising by Gomez, Charles

Cuban Son Rising

¥6,437

Cuban Son Rising

¥6,437
Author: Charles Gomez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Winner, Best Autobiography, International Latino Book Awards


"... a gut-wrenching memoir that captures the rollercoaster of horror and hope."

-Shelley Ross, former executive producer of Good Morning America

As a journalist he dug up the truth. But deep inside, he hid a life-shattering secret.

CBS News reporter Charles Gomez was fearless when facing down dictators. Earning an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Latin correspondent and son of a Cuban immigrant seemed on top of the world. But the terror of exposing his sexuality and AIDS diagnosis led him down a dark path of drugs and depression that nearly destroyed him. Cuban Son Rising is an honest and raw memoir detailing Gomez's lifelong battle to overcome stigma and self-loathing. Meticulously researched, Gomez's story takes you from interviews with despots and the front lines of civil wars to the silent struggles he faced seeking his father's acceptance. And after a lifetime of anxiety and regret, Gomez embarks on an emotional journey with his father to his homeland. Will Gomez finally reconcile with the man he's looked up to for his whole life? Or will disclosing his sexuality and the shame and stigma of AIDS cause his father to reject him? Cuban Son Rising is a testament to survival and the triumph of hope over fear.



Author: Charles Gomez
Publisher: MC Artistry/NYC Literature
Published: 04/17/2020
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781646630523


Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Gold Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2020

About the Author
Gomez, Charles: - Charles Gomez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, investigative reporter, and playwright. He was the first Cuban-American hired as a CBS News correspondent and has covered wars and revolutions for two networks over three decades. He was the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists' national Mark of Excellence Award, and has interviewed, among others, Fidel Castro, Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza, Salvadoran president Jose Napolean Duarte, Jamaican president Edward Seaga, and Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos of the Philippines. He has worked as an NBC News West Coast correspondent and also as a reporter for WPLG-TV in Miami, WBBM-TV in Chicago, WWOR and WNBC in New York City. Gomez's plays Bang Bang Blues and Adios, Tropicana were named as the US entries in Joseph Papp's Public Theater Festival Latino. His play Esperanza was a semi-finalist in the Eugene O'Neill National Playwright's Conference.

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