Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets
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    [year] => 2014
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    [synopsis] => The renowned writer describes coming of age during the violent Mexican Revolution and living as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.

Pillar of Salt is Novo's incomparable memoir of growing up during and after the Mexican Revolution, shuttling north to escape the Zapatistas, only to see his uncle murdered at home by the troops of Pancho Villa, and his initiations into literature and love with colorful, poignant, complicated men of usually mutually exclusive social classes. Pillar of Salt portrays the codes, intrigues, and dynamics of what, decades later, would be called "a gay ghetto." But in Novo's Mexico City, there was no name for this parallel universe, as full of fear as it was canny and vibrant. Novo's memoir plumbs the intricate subtleties of this world with startling frankness, sensitivity, and potential for hilarity. Also included in this volume are nineteen erotic sonnets, one of which was long thought to have been lost.
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    [series] => Texas Pan American Literature in Translation
    [subtitle] => An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets
    [publisher] => University of Texas Press
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