{"product_id":"toxic-masculinity-the-misadventures-of-a-barrio-boy-9781953447821","title":"Toxic Masculinity: The Misadventures of a Barrio Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a requiem. The original title of this book was \u003cem\u003eThe World Is a Barrio\u003c\/em\u003e. The idea was to pay homage to the band, WAR. The song, \"The World Is a Ghetto\" inspired me to see the world differently. It encouraged me to see the world beyond the one I lived in. And, the world I was raised in was one of gangs, sex, drugs, violence, poverty, systemic\/structural racism, education inequity, health disparity, food insecurity, patriotism, and death. A ghetto. A barrio. For whatever reason, so many in the world want to forget this world existed and still does. Some cancel-culture cancels culture. I used the title for my second novel instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, I wanted to title the book, \u003cem\u003eThe Pinche Piñata\u003c\/em\u003e. This title was a metaphor-a play on the expression, \"Mi vida loca.\" It was the original title of my second novel. I shopped the manuscript back in 2011. No one was ready to publish a book that examined transgender identity development and gender dysphoria. No one wanted to watch a boy grow up in the barrio and survive his machismo family. Or, maybe it was because less than 10 percent of the fiction-authors published are people of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe meaning of the title, \u003cem\u003eThe Pinche Piñata\u003c\/em\u003e, was intended to describe how my life felt. I have been a piñata. Life was the stick. That stick beat me again and again until I finally broke. And, that was when all the good stuff came pouring out-everyone ran up to take a piece. However, I felt uncomfortable cursing every time I told someone the title. It is not something I do very often. So, I called my daughter. She says, \"Dad, your work is about the damage of being nurtured in an environment of toxic masculinity.\" She says, \"How about, Toxic Masculinity?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother proud-dad moment. Of course . . . It was not life I survived, you survived, he survived, she survived, they survived, we survived. It was toxic masculinity.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eThis book is a collection of poems based upon the lives of those that I have grieved, loved, feared, respected, and survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11800830\"\u003eFernando Albert Salinas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Flowersong Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953447821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953447821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005070\"\u003eAmerican | Hispanic \u0026amp; Latino\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Flowersong Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48889887359263,"sku":"1953447821","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/6953\/0143\/files\/img_fcef448c-e28b-4be6-ac4a-455c342aef47.jpg?v=1719845021","url":"https:\/\/www.mocorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/toxic-masculinity-the-misadventures-of-a-barrio-boy-9781953447821","provider":"MOCorrectionsbookstore.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}