Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Boy Kings of Texas gets National Book Award Nomination

Finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards were named this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe program by David Steinberger, chairman of the National Book Foundation's board of directors. Winners will be announced November 14 in New York City.

The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir, by Domingo Martinez, Lyons Press, 978-0-7627-7919-2, was nominated in the Non-Fiction category.  Congratulations!

A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.