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Name: Take This Man
Rating: 4.3 (7 reviews)
Author: Brando Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781439170878

Take This Man

A Memoir

by Brando Skyhorse

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First Published:
Jun 3, 2014, 256 pages

Paperback:
Jun 2015, 272 pages

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- Biography & Memoir
- USA
- West, USA
- California
- 20th Century (multiple decades)
- Parenting & Families
- Coming of Age
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I was three years old when my life as Brando Kelly Ulloa, the son of a "good-for-nothing wetback," ended. My life as Brando Skyhorse, the American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist, had just begun.

Excerpted from Take This Man by Brando Skyhorse. Copyright © 2014 by Brando Skyhorse. Excerpted by permission of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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