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Carribean Fragoza lives the life she writes — busy, creative and slightly surreal


Carribean Fragoza lives the life she writes busy, creative and slightly surreal
Dorany Pineda
© (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Carribean Fragoza, artist, journalist and author of the short-story collection Eat the Mouth That Feeds You, will appear at the 2021 Times Festival of Books. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
When Carribean Fragoza was a child, she ate dirt. “Like I ate dirt
a lot,” she said in a recent video interview. And her
tías in Guadalajara, Mexico, really liked eating clay pots. They’d break off little pieces and hand them to her “like they were chocolate.
During one of her first prenatal appointments decades later, the obstetrician, concerned about lead in her body, asked Fragoza if she had eaten dirt as a kid. She responded delightedly: “Oh! Why yes I did, actually!” ....

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Carribean Fragoza on death, motherhood and imagination


When Carribean Fragoza was a child, she ate dirt. “Like I ate dirt
a lot,” she said in a recent video interview. And her
tías in Guadalajara, Mexico, really liked eating clay pots. They’d break off little pieces and hand them to her “like they were chocolate.”
During one of her first prenatal appointments decades later, the obstetrician, concerned about lead in her body, asked Fragoza if she had eaten dirt as a kid. She responded delightedly: “Oh! Why yes I did, actually!”
These tidbits of personal medical history the odd diet and the maternal anxiety “made their way into the story,” said the 39-year-old author, journalist and artist. That story is “Eat the Mouth That Feeds You,” about a young daughter who bites chunks of her own mother’s flesh. “It is her right,” says the mother in the short story. “She must take those things. She must take from me what she needs.” ....

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