Only Sons

Only Sons explores the ambivalent emotions that make up our social relationships, particularly those that stem from a psychological need to believe in a just world. Central to the experience of the characters in Only Sons is the complexity of father-son relationships and the manner in which positive as well as negative cultural values and traditions are passed on from one generation to the next. A native of the Texas-Mexican border region, Gonz獺lez skillfully situates his characters within a border culture that inevitably plays a major role in their development.

Genaro Gonzalez was awarded the 1990-1991 Dobie Paisano Creative Writing Fellowhship by the Texas Institute of Letters; he has also received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts in its fiction category. His novel, Rainbow's End, was an Editors Choice selection in the Los Angeles Times.