Bibliograph

Unforgetting, a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas, Roberto Lovato

Type

Label

Unforgetting, a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas, Roberto Lovato

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unforgetting

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1190581202

Responsibility statement

Roberto Lovato

Sub title

a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas

Summary

The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens, he lost friends to the escalating violence, and survived acts of brutality himself. As a human rights advocate in wartime El Salvador, he joined the guerrilla movement against the U.S.-backed, fascist military government. Lovato channeled his own pain into activism and journalism, focusing on how trauma affects individual lives and societies. Here he interweaves his family's history with first-hand reportage on gang life, state violence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. -- adapted from jacket

Target audience

adult

Classification