Awards

• Short-listed for ALA YALSA Award 2023

Overview

In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on-to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself.

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Ogle pays clear-eyed tribute to his maternal abuela while covering heavy topics such as child abuse, financial precarity, and racism in this searing verse memoir-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) The humor, reflection, and heart present in these pages remind readers to cherish their bonds with their loved ones and that small moments can last a lifetime.-- Booklist A visceral window into a survivor's childhood and a testament to the enduring influence of unconditional love.-- Kirkus Reviews

A visceral window into a survivor's childhood and a testament to the enduring influence of unconditional love.-- Kirkus Reviews

Author Information

Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award; Punching Bag, a NYPL Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award; and Road Home. He lives in Los Angeles.

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