My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 149300140X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sarah Chapman said Good Book. Enjoyed the book's honest approach to life and it's challenges and joys and relationships. Author has some good stuff to share.. "Five Stars" according to Michelle Cohrene. Brilliant.. Emotional, impacting but lost in ramblings. My Heart Is A Drunken Compass by Domingo Martinez is a tragic, heart searing memoir of self inspection that at times is too real to take and at times misses the mark so badly that you have to ask yourself how delusional the author really is. What it definitely is; though, is a book that will impact you on an emotional level one way or the other.The events of this
With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fiancé Stephanie plummeting off the side of an overpass in Seattle, after having a seizure while driving. Feeling estranged from his family in Texas over the years, isolated and alone in Seattle, he turns to writing as a therapeutic tool. These two traumatic life events actually bring Martinez closer to the family that he has in many ways spend years trying to deny, strengthening their bonds and healing old wounds. This pivotal moment, which began with an alarming call in the middle of the night, parallels another gut-wrenching experience from the past when his youngest brother’s life hangs in the balance. Martinez once again brilliantly examines the complicated connections between family, friends, and loved
Domingo Martinez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Boy Kings of Texas and was a Finalist for the National Book Award. The Boy Kings of Texas has been optioned by HBO for an original series through Salma Hayek’s production company, Ventanarosa. He has also appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and This A
If his raw will and Texas grit can’t save him, his writing just might. In one, in March 2007, he learns that his brother has sustained a head injury after a fall; the other, in December 2009, tells him that his ex-fiancée has driven her car over the side of an overpass. It begins with two late-night phone calls, several years apart. A passionate account of personal redemption. Glazed, troubled, often lost, Martinez’s too hot, drunken heart is still awful funny in cool Seattle. (Houston Chronicle and H