To Kill A Cockroach

Osvaldo Calixto Amador’s poetic, powerful memoir TO KILL A COCKROACH has an unconventional structure that opens out his memoir and his memories like a nesting doll. Born in Cuba, he came to the US with his mother and sister as a small child. There’s beautiful, poetic writing throughout, with powerful imagery and sensory detail. Some of his most compelling sections deal with his father’s imprisonment in Cuba, his own growing passion for art, navigating the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the love for his family of rescued dogs and birds. To Kill A Cockroach offers a roadmap to beauty through pain, and is a thought-provoking, page-turning memoir.