One Headlight: A Son's Memoir - Softcover

Frye-Castillo, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798995823506

Publisher: Volupte Press, 2021

Synopsis

On the night of Anchorage's worst blizzard, a twelve-year-old and his mother drive home through the dark in a battered Mustang with one working headlight - the enduring image of a boyhood held together by fierce, unwavering love. Raised by Abby, a devout Marine veteran, and by his free-spirited Abuela, Matthew Frye-Castillo grows up gay in a fundamentalist church, breaks free from the expectations that shaped him, reinvents himself as a writer in New York, then returns to Alaska at twenty-six to support his dying mother. Both a queer coming-of-age story and a grief memoir, One Headlight: A Son's Memoir is a portrait of three lives lit by one another's love.

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About the Authors

Matthew Frye-Castillo is a writer from California and Alaska who now lives in New York City. He has published arts criticism in 'Epiphany', 'The Gay and Lesbian Review', 'River Teeth', and 'Lambda Literary'; fiction in 'Newtown Literary' and 'Cirque Journal'; and personal essays in 'Mr. Beller's Neighborhood', 'Chicken Soup for the Soul', 'The Lindenwood Review', and the anthology 'Worn in New York', adapted as the Netflix docuseries 'Worn Stories'. His journalism has appeared in 'HuffPost', 'Anchorage Daily News', 'Bushwick Daily', and 'The Anchorage Press'. He has received fellowships through the Sewanee Writers' Conference, VCCA, the Hertog Foundation, StoryStudio Chicago, and the Mellon Foundation, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. He teaches writing and literature at Lehman College, City University of New York.

Jessica Yood is professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of 'The Composition Commons: Writing a New Idea of the University' (Utah State University Press, 2024) and co-editor of 'Public Voices: Writing Across Lehman College' (National Writing Project, 2016). She writes on literacy, higher education, and the public humanities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Volupte Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798995823506
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256