![]() ![]() For making it through alive the situations that kill so many. ![]() Through love, addiction, revolutions, and healing. Insightful and beautifully written, It Calls You Back is an odyssey History is repeating itself, right before his eyes. His oldest son is sent to prison for attempted murder, Rodríguez is forced toĬonfront his shortcomings as a father and to acknowledge how and why his own Success as a writer and an activist, Rodríguez finds his past, the crimes, theĭrugs, the things he’d seen and done, has a way of calling him back. ![]() Even as he breaks with “la vida loca” and begins to discover He describes with heartbreaking honesty hisĬhallenges as a father and his difficulty leaving his rages and addictionsĬompletely behind. Teenager and follows his struggle to kick heroin, renounce his former life, and It Calls You Back opens with Rodríguez’s final stint in jail as a Story of Rodríguez starting over, at age eighteen, after leaving gang life, the Long awaited follow-up, It Calls You Back, is the equally harrowing ![]() Rodríguez through his fearlessĬlassic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a youngĬhicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. Of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. ![]()
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