Reviews

Pedro's Theory by Marcos Gonsalez

livesinpages's review

5.0

Gonsalez is most interested in what we can learn from snapshots, the physical and those of memory, such as the conversations had between classmates or a parent and their child, and when they occur in relation to history. He leads readers into his childhood school, down small-town streets, life in academia, New York City queer clubs, and everywhere in between. Filled with lush prose, the resulting memoir is a layered, scathing excavation of how the seeds of white supremacy have bloomed into damages on the everyday lives of immigrants, queer people of color, and others existing on the margins in the United States.

p9ng's review

4.0

Autobiographical, gay, Latino, first-generation son of immigrants. Remembering the difficulty of being the other... A series of vignettes exploring personal history. Even for a white American, the story resonates with the challenge of growing up gay in a small, affluent town.