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Author:

Díaz, Jaquira, author.

Title:

Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

321 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Díaz, Jaquira--Childhood and youth.
Díaz, Jaquira--Family.
Lesbian authors--Puerto Rico--Biography.
Racially mixed women--Puerto Rico--Biography.
Families--Puerto Rico.
Mentally ill women.
Substance abuse.

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.

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.

ISBN:

1616209135
9781616209131

LCCN:

2019009593

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