<DIV>Rigoberto González, author of the critically acclaimed memoir <i>Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa</i>, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger.</DIV><DIV> The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.</DIV><DIV> Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment that comes in various forms—even "the smallest biggest joys" help piece together a complex portrait of a gay man of color who at last defines himself by what he learns, not by what he yearns for.</DIV>