Atlas of the human heart / Ariel Gore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gore, Ariel, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Runaway teenagers--California--Biography.

Runaway teenagers.

Coming of age.

Biography.

California.

Physical Description:

viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Seal Press, [2003]

Summary:

Like Jack Kerouac's intrepid little sister, Ariel Gore spins the spirited story of a vulnerable drifter who takes refuge in fate and the shadowy recesses of a string of glittering, broken relationships. With just a few pennies and her I Ching, a change of clothes and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, a perceptive, searching sixteen-year-old Gore makes her way from the sterile suffocation of the Silicon Valley through the labyrinthine customs of Cold-War China, wanders through bustling, electric Kathmandu, and hunkers down in an icy London squat with a prostitute and a boyfriend on the dole. Yet it is in the calm, verdant landscape of rural Italy where, pregnant and penniless, nineteen-year-old Gore's adventure truly begins. An illuminating glimpse into the boldly political Gore -- creator of HipMama.com and Hip Mama magazine -- this unflinching memoir offers a poignant exploration of the meaning of home and surveys the frontiers of both land and heart.

Contents:

Part I Heartbeat

Palo Alto High School 3

Downtown Train 6

Do You Know Me? 12

Because Silence Frightens People 22

Learning How to Navigate 31

The Forest Through the Trees 42

If You are Falling 51

Part II Heartfelt

White Ghost Girl 63

In My Country, We Might Think You Were Mad 69

The Year of the Rabbit 78

Do Not Talk About Politics 84

Beijing Tricky 94

Great Wall, Subterranean Highway 101

The Cold War Cafe 111

I'll Be Back Soon 121

Part III To Have a Change of Heart

Now Subtract a Little Oxygen 133

Geography and Circumstance 144

Nomads 155

Zero Mass Theorem 166

From Saffron and Dirt 173

Where We Can Be Ourselves 183

And If I Forget 189

Part IV Heartburn

Choose Your Own Adventure 201

We Are Here to Ruin Ourselves 209

The Four of Us 218

Wandering or Withering? 225

A Sorry Dear 235

Patient Is Unable to Give a Clear Account of Her Origin or Destination 245

Why You Go Back 253

Part V Heart

For Every Person, There Is a Unique Tragedy 269

If I Had Three Coins 278

To Save Me 289

Stateless 300

Because the World Tips 314.

ISBN:

1580050883

OCLC:

52201561