The girls of usually / Lori Horvitz ; cover design, Teresa Wheeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horvitz, Lori, author.

Contributor:

Wheeler, Teresa, cover designer.

Series:

Contemporary nonfiction series.

Contemporary Nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horvitz, Lori.

Jewish women--United States--Biography.

Jewish women.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lori Horvitz grew up ashamed of her Eastern European Jewish roots, confused about her sexuality, and idolizing the "shiksa in her living room," a blonde all-American girl whose photo came in a double frame and was displayed next to a family photo from a bar mitzvah. Unable to join the "happy blonde families," she becomes a "hippie chick" who travels the world in search of ¿ something. "The Girls of Usually" chronicles each trip, each romance, each experiment in reinventing herself that draws her closer to discovering the secret door through which she can escape from deep-rooted patterns and accept her own cultural, ethnic, and sexual identity.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1. The Magician""; ""2. Shiksa in My Living Room""; ""3. Chickens of Suburbia""; ""4. Sham Poodle Dreams""; ""5. A Tourist, of Sorts""; ""6. My Life as a Hippie Chick""; ""7. Deathbed Pearls""; ""8. My People""; ""9. A Hushed Blue Underworld""; ""10. Little Pink Hatchling""; ""11. Slow Train to the Forbidden City""; ""12. New York: 1986�89""; ""13. Women of Pompeii""; ""14. The Weight of Stuff""; ""15. A Certain Shade of Blue""; ""16. The Last Days of Disco Donut (1987�89)""

""17. Mongrels of Salamanca""""18. Feminist Christmas Tree Farm""; ""9. The Girls of Usually""; ""20. The Lost Language of Lox""; ""21. Death and Furniture""; ""22. Transitions""; ""23. Slim-Fast Vacation""; ""24. Unloading Bones""; ""25. Father's Advice""; ""26. The Golden Cord""; ""27. Into the Arms of Strangers""; ""28. Fahrenheit or Celsius: Long Distance Love in Degrees""; ""29. OpenWide66""; ""30. Dating My Mother""; ""31. The Big SMoke""; ""32. The Woman who Owned a Place in Flannery O'Connor's Hometown""; ""Epilogue (2014)""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61248-137-X