Hunger Of Memory is the story
of a Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins
his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing
just 50 words of English and concludes his
university studies in the stately quiet of the reading
room of the British Museum. Here is the
poignant journey is a minority student who
pays the cost of his social assimilation and
academic success with a painful alienation -- from his
past, his parents, his culture -- and so describes
the high price of making it in middle
class America. Provocative in its
positions on affirmative action and bilingual education,
Hunger Of Memory is a powerful
political statement, a profound study of the
importance of language... and the moving, intimate portrait
of a boy struggling to become a man.
