Caca dolce : essays from a lowbrow life / Chelsea Martin.
Edition:
First Soft Skull edition.
Publisher:
Soft Skull Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
210 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
The man who famously inspired this essay. Child's play -- The meaning of life -- Vandal -- Punks not dead -- A year without spoons -- Voluntary responses to involuntary sensations -- Goth Ryan -- Ceramic busts -- A scrap of Hello Kitty notepaper -- Secrets of professional tournament poker -- How to bullshit -- Man-hater -- r Trashy coming-of-age story -- Romantic comedy -- Zeitgeist -- Evoution and maybe death -- I lost a tooth at work -- The man who famously inspired this essay.
Summary:
Funny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martin's coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourette's diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless education at an expensive art college; navigating the messy process of falling in love with a close friend; and struggling for independence from her emotionally manipulative father and from the family and friends in the dead-end California town that has defined her upbringing. This is a book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, and family--and about growing up weird, and poor, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.