Return of the Lost Son

Christopher Gonzales has published stories in the Hopkins Review, North American Review, Stone Canoe, and elsewhere. He and his wife live in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

"More than a memoir, Return of the Lost Son is an act of reparation: in sifting through the ashes and shards of his father's ruptured past, connecting with his father's past wives and his own lost siblings, and becoming a husband and father himself, Christopher Gonzales crafts his own contrasting version of family, one fused by compassion, vulnerability, and self-determination." - Molly Beer, author of Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution "Like all great memoirists, Gonzales contends with the slipperiness of memory, our shifting relationship to the past, and the human desire for stories to contain our grief. Return of the Lost Son is a master class in narrative nonfiction." - J. D. Schraffenberger, editor of the North American Review "A kaleidoscopic journey that unfolds in evocative prose, Return of the Lost Son transports readers from Ithaca, New York, to Mexico City, from the past to the present, from fact to imagination. The result is an immersive, affecting read that centers a complicated figure in a story brimming with truth, honesty, and love." - Laura Maylene Walter, author of Body of Stars