Binding: Paperback
Description: Bones Worth Breaking is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them. Nobody around David Martinez saw how quickly he was breaking apart except for his younger brother Mike. They stood out in Idaho: mixed - race in a Mormon community that in the years before David's birth considered Black people ineligible for salvation. The Martinez brothers were raised to be good boys definitely not to get high skateboard all night or get arrested all of which they did with zeal. Then their paths diverged. David went on a two - year mission trip to Brazil like his father before him and Mike stayed in the States finding himself in and out of prison. When David returned in the middle of the still - unnamed opioid epidemic things had irrevocably changed and in 2021, Mike unexpectedly died in prison. Martinez writes with a serrated edge as viscerally felt as an exposed nerve and transforms from a stoic boy constantly seeking escape to a vulnerable man eager to contextualize the legacies and losses that have shaped his life. With a wild ragged velocity flipping and soaring like a pro skater Martinez defies a linear telling of his life and tackles topics from abuse and racism to writing and capturing the meaning of the specific nostalgia of saudade. Bones Worth Breaking is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers who were robbed of the chance to grow old together and a reckoning with the brutal global forces that let so many poor young men of color fall perilously through the cracks.
Title: Bones Worth Breaking
Author(s): Martinez David
Publisher: Mcd
Barcode: 9780374610951
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 4/9/2024
Category: Family & Relationships