From a stunning new Latino voice,\u00a0Myth of the Self-Made Man<\/i>\u00a0is a wildly inventive story – part sci-fi, with echoes of\u00a0Get Out<\/i>\u00a0– that plunges us into a brave new American landscape.<\/p>\n
More than a hundred years into the future, as the US approaches its 400th anniversary, Tomas, a young graduate student, searches for the real identity of one of the cyborgs that maintained American homes. He has been haunted for years by an audio clip of a cyborg named Felipe and is intent on writing Felipe\u2019s biography. In the clip, Felipe can only recite that he was made in America, but Tomas must find out: Where was the Self-made Man really from?<\/p>\n
In the National Archives, Tomas uncovers a trove of articles, depositions, and interviews about many other cyborgs, boys from El Salvador and Guatemala kidnapped, detained, and reengineered at a monolithic New England company.<\/p>\n
As we follow Tomas\u2019 determined investigation into these lives, their voices echo through our own past, present, and future with unsettling clarity.<\/p>\n