It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
“Extraordinarily haunting and provocative.”—The Washington Post Book World“Rodriguez’s account of his coming of age is vivid, raw….Here’s truth no television set, burning night and day, could ever begin to offer.”—The New York Times Book Review“Beautifully written and politically astute.”—Entertainment Weekly"Rodriguez’s life story is astonishing . . . It takes a heart broken open by a lifetime of sorrows to write with this wisdom and compassion. It takes a visionary to use this knowledge in service to those the world despises—troubled youth, the homeless, the incarcerated, the poor, the migrant—to be called back for those you love."—Sandra Cisneros, author ofCarameloandThe House on Mango Street“This is a man who understands that ‘giving back’ is a natural thing to do—and does it in spades. My respect for his metamorphosis can only be described as awe.”—John Densmore, bestselling author ofRiders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors“Two decades ago Luis Rodríguez became a superhero in Chicano literature with his survivor's story of a gangbanger youth. Here, again, he beautifully details his not-so-ordinary life, its tragedies and graces, but now as a son, husband, father, a worker, journalist, and successful author. WithIt Calls You Back, Rodriguez maps out his activist past and leads us into the future. Adelante!”—Dagoberto Gilb, author ofThe FlowersandBefore the End, After the Beginning