2021 L.A. Times Festival of Books Preview Carribean Fragoza Carribean Fragoza appears April 23 on “Fiction: The Art of Short Story” with Ben Okri, Deesha Philyaw and Shruti Swamy, with Dorany Pineda moderating. That story is “Eat the Mouth That Feeds You,” about a young daughter who bites chunks of her own mother’s flesh. Today, free to explore every interest via her patchwork of creative gigs, Fragoza sometimes finds herself struggling to find a balance between parenthood and creativity. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Yes, the story is about dying, but it’s really about figuring life out without much help. Before all that, she hopes the stories in “Eat the Mouth That Feeds You” destabilize readers’ sense of reality.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 05, 2021 15:11 UTC