This month the EMPTY BOTTLE BOOK CLUB will be reading "HUNGER OF
MEMORY" by RICHARD RODRIGUEZ. The meeting will be held on Sunday,
February 25th at 3PM!EBBC's selections will be available for purchase
each month at WICKER PARK SECRET AGENT SUPPLY CO. Support a local
business and 826CHI, a great nonprofit dedicated to supporting
students with their creative writing skills, by picking up your copy
of this book from our friends at 1276 Milwaukee Avenue!
_Hunger of Memory_ is the story of Mexican-American Richard
Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing
just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the
stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.
Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the
cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful
alienation — from his past, his parents, his culture — and so
describes the high price of “making it” in middle-class America.
Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual
EDUCATION, _Hunger of Memory_ is a powerful political statement, a
profound study of the importance of language ... and the moving,
intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
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