Excerpt from Take This Man by Brando Skyhorse, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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.

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