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Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.

By: Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 321 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781616209131
  • 1616209135
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.603 B 23
  • 928/.1
LOC classification:
  • PS3604.I176 Z46 2019
Contents:
Girl hood -- Origin story -- El casero -- 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.
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.
Holdings
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PS3604 .A9884 D394 2020 Cardinal / PS3604 .E129 P47 2012 Perla / PS3604.I17 T78 2022 Trust / PS3604 .I176 Z46 2019 Ordinary girls : a memoir / PS3604 .O34 A77 2014 All the light we cannot see : a novel / PS3604 .O34 C56 2021 Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / PS3604 .O453 B9 2009 By cold water : poems /

Girl hood -- Origin story -- El casero -- 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.

"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.

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