About the book:
Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month comes The Boy Kingdom/ El reino de los varones. These 44 prose poems, artful yet accessible, presented in both Spanish and English versions, immerse us in the boy kingdom that Achy Obejas inhabits with her 2 sons. They move from the wild and divine spirit of boyhood to the everyday rhythms of family life—mac‘n’cheese, television, sick days home from school.
Achy carries multiple identities: she is Cuban American, lesbian, and Jewish. She captures the universality of motherhood while also illuminating the uniqueness of her queer, multilingual, multicultural family. The collection is divided into 4 parts. The first part focuses primarily on Achy’s sons, and subsequent parts branch out into stories of her parents, her roots in Cuba, and her divorce from her wife.
