Fugitive Son: A Memoir

By: Aramís Calderón

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Synopsis: Aramís Calderón was eleven in 1992 when federal marshals conducted a nighttime raid at the Baton Rouge apartment where he lived with his mother and four siblings. They were searching for Aramís&’s father, who had escaped from a nearby federal prison. Once satisfied with the answers from Aramís&’s mother, the marshals departed. At daybreak, so did Aramís&’s family—and drove toward a rendezvous with his father, who had fled to South Florida. Thus began an eight-month ordeal of constant moves, family aliases, and drug deals. As Calderón shares, Fugitive Son is not a love letter to his father, whom he sees even after his death as an unethical, toxic, and incredibly complex man. Rather, Calderón&’s memoir explores how his father&’s undeniable love for his family despite drug addiction, lawlessness, and toxic masculinity informed Aramís&’s rebellious decision to join the Marines, and how all this shaped his determination to become the father he wished his own had been.