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Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.I176 Z46 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Díaz, Jaquira, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial women.
- Lesbian authors.
- Puerto Rico.
- Díaz, Jaquira--Childhood and youth.
- Díaz, Jaquira.
- Díaz, Jaquira--Family.
- Lesbian authors--Puerto Rico--Biography.
- Multiracial women--Puerto Rico--Biography.
- Families--Puerto Rico.
- Families.
- Mentally ill women.
- Substance abuse.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Girl hood
- Origin story
- El Caserío
- La otra
- Home is a place
- Monster story
- Candy girl
- Ordinary girls
- Fourteen, or how to be a juvenile delinquent
- Girls, monsters
- Beach city
- Battle stations
- Secrets
- Mother, mercy
- Returning
- Ordinary girls.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781616209131
- 1616209135
- OCLC:
- 1090696817
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