Title: Freak
First published: 1997
Description: "Freak: a Semi-Demi-Quasi-Pseudo Autobiography is John Leguizamo's hilarious coming-of-age story. Set in various neighborhoods of Queens, New York, in the eras of disco and break-dancing, Freak recounts the turmoil and eccentricities within a Latino family struggling to make it. A domineering father, frustrated by his rocky quest for the American dream; a mother who finds feminism and the club scene when she tires of Pop's tight control; a pudgy, eager-to-please, easily manipulated younger brother; and John - who doesn't spare himself in telling the gory details of his teen years." "Freak is the book adaptation of Leguizamo's comical and critically acclaimed one-man Broadway show. But Freak, the book, contains narrative that had to be cut from the show because of time restraints."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Dramatists, Biography, Comedians, Dramatists, American, Hispanic Americans, Dramatists, biography, Comedians, biography, Hispanic americans, biography
Places: United States
People: John Leguizamo
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3562.E424 Z47 1997