Hunger of Memory

Mexican-American Rodriguez starts school in Sacramento, California understanding only 50 words of English. He completes his university studies in London. While on his academic journey, he becomes alienated from the culture of his birth, while assimilating into the world of academia. The book addresses affirmative action and bilingual education, among other themes. The book has been studied as a critical work of American minority literature.^[1][2]

• Hunger of Memory at the Penguin Random House website (current publisher)