My Heart Is a Drunken Compass (50 page)

Special and eternal thanks also go to Salma Hayek and Jose Tamez, even Jerry Weintraub at HBO.

And, finally, for you, Sarah Berry. This is all gravy, darling.

Domingo Martinez is the
New York Times
best-selling author of
The Boy Kings of Texas
and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012.
The Boy Kings of Texas
is a Gold Medal Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award and was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. It has been optioned by HBO for an original series. Martinez's work has appeared in
Epiphany
literary journal,
Huizache
literary magazine,
New Republic
, and
Saveur
magazine, and he is a regular contributor to
This American Life
. He has appeared on NPR's
All Things Considered
and the
Diane Rehm Show
and was the recipient of the Bernard De Voto Fellowship in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2013. Martinez is also a widely sought speaker on topics ranging from the contemporary Latino experience in America to the consequences and processes of writing memoir.

Also by Domingo Martinez

National Book Award Finalist

New York Times
best-selling author

Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal Winner

“An emotional roller coaster rendered in exquisite detail.”

—P
UBLISHERS
W
EEKLY

“A hilarious and heartbreaking story of a sensitive soul who grows up in the macho barrio of Brownsville, Texas.”

—S
EATTLE
T
IMES

“A starkly honest memoir of growing up on the Texas-Mexican border in the 1970s and '80s, with a wry twist.”

—S
HELF
A
WARENESS

“A nonfiction masterpiece.”

—T
EXAS
O
BSERVER

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