About this item
Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy.In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on -- to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life.
About the Author
REX OGLE was born and raised (mostly) in Texas. He is the author of memoirs Free Lunch (which received the ALA/YALSA Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction) , Punching Bag, and the upcoming graphic novel Four Eyes. He also wrote the fantasy middle-grade Supernatural Society trilogy and has written dozens of comics for Marvel and DC, as well as his webcomic Blink. He's written under a lot of pen names too - most notably Trey King, Honest Lee, and REY TERCIERO, under which he penned Meg, Jo, Beth, & Amy, Swan Lake: Quest for the Kingdoms, Doña Quixote, and Northranger. He lives in Los Angeles where he writes full-time - when he's not outside hiking with his dog, playing MarioKart with friends, or reading.To find out more, visit www.rexogle.com or @thirdrex on instagram.
